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typestate: a standalone construct

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a refinement of types that tracks which operations are allowed on an object in its current state, checked at compile time.

In programming languages, typestate refers to a refinement of types that tracks which operations are allowed on an object in its current state, checked at compile time. This meaning comes from Strom (1986) in IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering.[1]

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current3 fields · 6 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs object4 fields · 8 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs state4 fields · 6 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs

References

Strom, R. E., & Yemini, S. (1986). Typestate: A programming language concept for enhancing software reliability. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, SE-12(1), 157-171. https://doi.org/10.1109/tse.1986.6312929

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