Transactional contexts harnessing the power of context-oriented reflection

International Workshop on Context-Oriented Programming, COP '09

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  González, Sebastián ^a   Denker, Marcus ^b   Mens, Kim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Computational reflection; Context oriented programming; Software transactional memory

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION MODEL; COMPUTATIONAL REFLECTION; CONTEXT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; EXECUTION CONTEXT; LANGUAGE SEMANTICS; NON-INTRUSIVE; SOFTWARE TRANSACTIONAL MEMORY;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; STORAGE ALLOCATION (COMPUTER);

REFLECTION;

EID: 84869641149     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1562112.1562115     Document Type: Conference Paper

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