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Families of independent classes, where each class represents a separate, orthogonal concern are highly attractive for implementing collaboration-based design. However, required subtype relationship between such families cannot be expressed in many programming languages. This paper presents a framework to handle collaborating groups of classes using template metaprogramming based on standard C++ features in the style of Loki::Typelist. Our solution provides tailor-made implicit conversion rules between appropriate groups, inclusion polymorphism and a tool for dynamic binding.
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Zólyomi, I., Porkoláb, Z., Kozsik, T. (2003). An Extension to the Subtype Relationship in C++ Implemented with Template Metaprogramming. In: Pfenning, F., Smaragdakis, Y. (eds) Generative Programming and Component Engineering. GPCE 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2830. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-39815-8_13
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