A generic reification technique for object-oriented reflective languages

Higher-Order and Symbolic Computation

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 7-34

  Douence, Rémi ^a   Südholt, Mario ^a  

^a ECOLE DES MINES DE NANTES   (France)

Author keywords

Language implementation; OO languages; Program transformation; Reflection

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); MIDDLEWARE; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; PROGRAM INTERPRETERS;

COMPUTATIONAL REFLECTION; GENERIC REIFICATION TECHNIQUE; META-OBJECT PROTOCOLS (MOP);

JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE;

EID: 0035275926     PISSN: 13883690     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1011549115358     Document Type: Article

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