Towards Interactive Object-Oriented Programming

TL;DR

This paper introduces a new programming construct for object-oriented languages that enables interactive object creation by prompting user choices during object instantiation.

Contribution

It proposes a choice-disjunctive declaration statement for classes, allowing interactive user input to determine object behavior or attributes during creation.

Findings

Enables interactive object instantiation with user choices

Formalizes a new declaration syntax for interactive objects

Facilitates user-driven customization in object-oriented programming

Abstract

To represent interactive objects, we propose a choice-disjunctive declaration statement of the form S R where S;R are the (procedure or field) declaration statements within a class. This statement has the following semantics: request the user to choose one between S and R when an object of this class is created. This statement is useful for representing interactive objects that require interactions with the user.