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

ACM SIGPLAN Notices

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 331-344

  Bracha, Gilad ^a   Ungar, David ^a  

^a SUN MICROSYSTEMS   (United States)

Author keywords

Java; Metaprogramming; Mirrors; Reflection; Self; Smalltalk

Indexed keywords

METAPROGRAMMING; SELF; SMALLTALK;

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; METADATA; MIRRORS; REFLECTION; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

EID: 17044391454     PISSN: 03621340     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1035292.1029004     Document Type: Conference Paper

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