Zuse
<language> (After Konrad Zuse) A descendant of Ada, Modula-2, Mesa and
Oberon-1, described by Christian Collberg <collberg@dna.lth.se> in his
PhD thesis 1991.
Zuse supports several levels of information hiding. The Zuse type system
includes fully hidden types (similar to Modula-2 opaque types but without any
implementation restriction), semi-open pointer types (same as Modula-2 opaque
types), extensible record types (similar to Oberon-1 public projection types but
without the compiler hint), enumeration types, extensible enumeration types, and
extensible subrange types.
A type can also be protected by specifying the operations that particular
modules may perform (similar to C++ friend classes and Ada private types). Zuse
also includes hidden and extensible constants and hidden inline procedures. In
order to support the higher levels of information hiding the implementation
employs partial intermediate code linking.
A version for Sun-3 is available.
(1999-02-18)
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