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Avoiding Confusion in Metacircularity: The Meta-Helix
Shigeru Chiba,Gregor Kiczales,John O. Lamping +2 more
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This work presents a new architecture, called the meta-helix, that preserves the advantages of metacircularity but also addresses the problems with conflation.Abstract:
A system with a metaobject protocol (MOP) allows programmers to extend it and then use the extended system as naturally as the original non-extended one. Such metaobject protocols often use a metacircular architecture to make the extensions easier to write. Unfortunately, this use of metacircularity can lead to problems stemming from a conflation of the extended and non-extended functionalities. We present a new architecture, called the meta-helix, that preserves the advantages of metacircularity but also addresses the problems with conflation.read more
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a new approach to programming language design, which resolves fundamental tensions between elegance and efficiency, called metaobject protocols, which are interfaces to the lanaguage that give users the ability to incrementally modify the language's behavior and implementation, as well as to write programs within the language.
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