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It approximates or even equals Morris-style contextual equivalence and admits proofs of program equivalence via co-induction. It has an elementary construction from the operational definition of a language. We consider <span class=\"SpellE\">bisimilarity<\/span> for one of the typed object calculi of Abadi and Cardelli. By defining a labelled transition system for the calculus in the style of Crole and Gordon and using a variation of Howe&#8217;s method we establish two central results: that <span class=\"SpellE\">bisimilarity<\/span> is <span class=\"GramE\">a congruence<\/span>, and that it equals contextual equivalence. So two objects are <span class=\"SpellE\">bisimilar<\/span> <span class=\"SpellE\">iff<\/span> no amount of programming can tell them apart. Our third contribution is to show that <span class=\"SpellE\">bisimilarity<\/span> soundly models the <span class=\"SpellE\">equational<\/span> theory of Abadi and Cardelli. This is the first study of contextual equivalence for an object calculus and the first application of Howe&#8217;s method to subtyping. By these results, we intend to demonstrate that operational methods are a promising new direction for the foundations of object-oriented programming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bisimilarity (also known as `applicative bisimulation&#8216;) has attracted a good deal of attention as an operational equivalence for lambda-calculi. It approximates or even equals Morris-style contextual equivalence and admits proofs of program equivalence via co-induction. It has an elementary construction from the operational definition of a language. 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