Re: Object identity

I think the OO community needs to spend a lot more time properly
defining concepts like object identity, value-types versus
object-types etc. The discussions on comp.object reveal disagreement
over the fundamentals. I haven't seen a book on OO that is anywhere
near sufficiently formal.

Yoy may want to try to find a copy of :

W. Kent. A rigorous model of object reference, identity, and existence.
Journal of Object-Oriented Programming, 4(3):28--36, June 1991.

It was really enlightning for me at the time

Cheers

--- Raoul

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