Mirrors: design principles for meta-level facilities of object-oriented programming languages Export

@misc{citeulike:5806683, abstract = {We identify three design principles for reflection and metaprogramming facilities in object oriented programming languages. Encapsulation: meta-level facilities must encapsulate their implementation. Stratification: meta-level facilities must be separated from base-level functionality. Ontological correspondence: the ontology of meta-level facilities should correspond to the ontology of the language they manipulate. Traditional/mainstream reflective architectures do not follow these precepts. In contrast, reflective APIs built around the concept of mirrors are characterized by adherence to these three principles. Consequently, mirror-based architectures have significant advantages with respect to distribution, deployment and general purpose metaprogramming.}, author = {Bracha, Gilad}, citeulike-article-id = {5806683}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.96.431}, keywords = {compilers, java, metaprogramming}, pages = {331--344}, posted-at = {2009-09-20 14:45:43}, priority = {4}, title = {Mirrors: design principles for meta-level facilities of object-oriented programming languages}, url = {http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.96.431}, volume = {39}, year = {2004} }

TY - ELEC ID - citeulike:5806683 L3 - citeulike-article-id:5806683 N2 - We identify three design principles for reflection and metaprogramming facilities in object oriented programming languages. Encapsulation: meta-level facilities must encapsulate their implementation. Stratification: meta-level facilities must be separated from base-level functionality. Ontological correspondence: the ontology of meta-level facilities should correspond to the ontology of the language they manipulate. Traditional/mainstream reflective architectures do not follow these precepts. In contrast, reflective APIs built around the concept of mirrors are characterized by adherence to these three principles. Consequently, mirror-based architectures have significant advantages with respect to distribution, deployment and general purpose metaprogramming. EP - 344 TI - Mirrors: design principles for meta-level facilities of object-oriented programming languages VL - 39 SP - 331 KW - compilers KW - java KW - metaprogramming AU - Bracha, Gilad PY - 2004/// UR - http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.96.431 ER -