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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 05, 2009
Filed:
Mar. 25, 2003
Wolfram Schulte, Bellevue, WA (US);
Barend H. Venter, Issaquah, WA (US);
Chia-hsun Chen, Redmond, WA (US);
Erik Meijer, Mercer Island, WA (US);
Christopher J. Lovett, Woodinville, WA (US);
Matthew J. Warren, Redmond, WA (US);
Wolfram Schulte, Bellevue, WA (US);
Barend H. Venter, Issaquah, WA (US);
Chia-Hsun Chen, Redmond, WA (US);
Erik Meijer, Mercer Island, WA (US);
Christopher J. Lovett, Woodinville, WA (US);
Matthew J. Warren, Redmond, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A system and method for employing a programming language based on structural types on top of a nominal type runtime environment is disclosed. The system utilizes adapters and coercive subtyping to achieve precise typing while preserving aliasing. Furthermore, the system employs a universal value representation to achieve cross-assembly type equivalence.