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PORK Object System Programmers' Guide
O. Lassila
tech. report CMU-RI-TR-95-12, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, April, 1995.

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PORK is an object system which brings a conventional object-oriented language closer to the requirements of frame-based programming. It only provides a very limited set of features (on top of the base object system itself), and aims to achieve seamless integration with conventional programming. PORK is implemented as a portable metalevel extension of the Common Lisp Object System (CLOS). It extends CLOS by adding the following concepts:

* Named objects. These simplify debugging and linked frame model construction. Collections of named objects (called "namespaces") can also be used as a low-level implementation vehicle for knowledge bases.

* References to nonexisting named objects. Programs can manipulate objects that have not yet been created. This greatly simplifies definition of complex linked frame models with circular references.

* Slots with multiple values, and a mechanism for defining an access interface.

* Automatic updating of inverse slots.

Sponsor: ARPA, NASA
Grant ID: F30602-90-C-0019, F30602-91-C-0014, NCC 2-531

Associated center: CIMDS
Associated lab/group: Intelligent Coordination and Logistics Laboratory

Number of pages: 59

O. Lassila, PORK Object System Programmers' Guide, tech. report CMU-RI-TR-95-12, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, April, 1995.

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