@InProceedings{bessai_et_al:LIPIcs.ECOOP.2021.4, author = {Bessai, Jan and Heineman, George T. and D\"{u}dder, Boris}, title = {{Covariant Conversions (CoCo): A Design Pattern for Type-Safe Modular Software Evolution in Object-Oriented Systems}}, booktitle = {35th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2021)}, pages = {4:1--4:25}, series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)}, ISBN = {978-3-95977-190-0}, ISSN = {1868-8969}, year = {2021}, volume = {194}, editor = {M{\o}ller, Anders and Sridharan, Manu}, publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik}, address = {Dagstuhl, Germany}, URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2021.4}, URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-140476}, doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2021.4}, annote = {Keywords: Expression problem, software evolution, type safety, producer method, binary method} }