From conception to birth is traditionally nine months. The first emails regarding the volume you now hold in your hands or the bits you have downloaded onto your screen are dated 11 June 2005. From conception to birth has taken over four years. Springer s LNCS Transactions on Pattern Languages of Programming is dedicated, first and foremost, to promoting, promulgating, presenting, describing, critiquing, interrogating, and evaluating all aspects of the use of patterns in programming. In the 15 years or so since Gamma, Helm, Johnson, Vlissides s Design Patterns became widely available,...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 26th European Conference on "Object-Oriented Programming, ECOOP 2012", held in Beijing, China, in June 2012. The 27 revised full papers presented together with two keynote lectures were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 140 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on extensibility, language evaluation, ownership and initialisation, language features, special-purpose analyses, javascript, hardcore theory, modularity, updates and interference, general-purpose analyses.

This book surveys state-of-the-art techniques for dealing with aliasing in object-oriented programming, presenting 22 papers on the Geneva convention, ownership, concurrency, alias analysis, controlling effects, verification, programming languages and visions.