Explicit metaclasses as a tool for improving the design of class libraries

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 1049, Issue , 1996, Pages 38-55

  Ledoux, Thomas ^a,c   Cointe, Pierre ^b,c  

^a IBM   (France)

^b Laboratoire Jules Verne   (France)

^c ECOLE DES MINES DE NANTES   (France)

Author keywords

CASE tools; Class properties; CLASSTALK; Explicit metaclasses; Language design; Patterns; Reuse; SMALLTALK; Software engineering

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE REUSABILITY; LIBRARIES; SEMANTICS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

CLASS-PROPERTY; CLASSTALK; EXPLICIT METACLASSES; LANGUAGE DESIGN; PATTERNS; REUSE; SMALLTALK;

ENGINEERING EDUCATION;

EID: 84958972005     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-60954-7_42     Document Type: Conference Paper

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