Blond(ID:3577/blo002)

Reflective language based on scheme 

Reflective language based on scheme

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References:
  • Wand, M., and D. P. Friedman "The Mystery of the Tower Revealed: A Non-Reflective Description of the Reflective Tower," pp298-307 view details
          in Conference Record of the 1986 ACM Symposium on Lisp and Functional Programming, August 1986 view details
  • A Blond Primer; Olivier Danvy, Karoline Malmkjaer; DIKU TR 88/21. view details pdf Abstract: This report describes how to use the reflective tower Blond. A reflective tower is a computational
    architecture where programs are given access to representations of the current state of computation.

    This models an infinite tower of interpreters interpreting each other, meta-circularly.
    Blond is a Scheme interpreter extended to be reflective. This report concentrates on its reflec-
    tive extension rather than on the standard Scheme characteristics. Reification, reflection, reified
    environments, and reified continuations are described in detail. Each key point is illustrated with
    scenarios. The first entries in a Blond library are assembled, and finally Blond is run in Blond,
    achieving orthogonal reflective towers. A glossary and the Scheme source code are provided in
    appendix.

    This report informally describes its 1988 implementation, as specified in the article "Intensions and Extensions in a Reflective Tower", presented at the 1988 ACM Symposium on Lisp and
    Functional Programming, where Blond is formally described.

          in Conference Record of the 1986 ACM Symposium on Lisp and Functional Programming, August 1986 view details