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The relationship between different styles of interfaces in Ada and their formal specifications in Anna is defined by transformation rules: applicative packages with axiomatic specifications of Abstract Data Types, imperative packages with pre- and post-conditions, and stand-alone packages with an internally hidden state. The introduction of exceptions for such packages or the transition to monitor tasks in the concurrent case is defined as a derivation from the notion of partial functions. In all these cases, the original axiomatic or algebraic ADT specification is retained.
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Krieg-Brückner, B. (1985). Transformation of Interface Specifications. In: Kreowski, HJ. (eds) Recent Trends in Data Type Specification. Informatik-Fachberichte, vol 116. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-09691-8_12
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