Safe Metaclass Programming

SIGPLAN Notices (ACM Special Interest Group on Programming Languages)

Volumn 33, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 84-96

  Bouraqadi Saâdani, Noury M N ^a   Ledoux, Thomas ^a   Rivard, Fred ^a,b  

^a ECOLE DES MINES DE NANTES   (France)

^b Object Technology International Inc   (Canada)

Author keywords

Class property propagation; Class specific properties; Compatibility; Metaclasses

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347507502     PISSN: 03621340     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/286942.286949     Document Type: Article

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