A fair point. By "contracts" in that first word, we refer to real-world contracts. For software "contracts", we initially had a footnote trying to explain the relationship between the "smart contracts" we're talking about and the type-like "contracts" that this literature refers to. Perhaps unwisely, I removed it because I thought it created more confusion than it cleared up. By introducing "the exchange of rights" in that same first sentence I hope we make it clear that we're talking about a different kind of contract, one closer to the real world notion.
I'll see if I can find the footnote I deleted, at least for the record here on es-discuss ;). On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 2:57 PM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 5:46 PM, Mark S. Miller <[email protected]> wrote: >> At >> http://code.google.com/p/es-lab/downloads/detail?name=distr-erights-in-js.pdf >> >> Paper for invited talk at ESOP2013 http://www.etaps.org/2013/esop13 >> Final already submitted, but comments of course appreciated anyway. > > Given that the first word of your abstract is "Contracts", it's > surprising to me that you don't reference any of the quite extensive > literature on software contracts, starting with Bertrand Meyer in the > 80s, and continuing with Findler and Felleisen's work on higher-order > contracts over the past 10+ years, which has even been implemented for > JS by Tim Disney using proxies [1]. > > Sam > > [1] http://disnetdev.com/contracts.coffee/ -- Cheers, --MarkM _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
