MetaBETA(ID:3612/met007)
Meta-object version of BETA
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References:
Søren Brandt and René W. Schmid "The Design of a Meta-Level Architecture for the BETA Language" (1995) Proceedings of META '95: Workshop on Advances in Metaobject Protocols and Reflection at ECOOP'95 view details
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Abstract: The design of a meta-level architecture for a compiled and statically typed object-oriented programming language is presented. The architecture provides compiled languages with sufficient runtime information to implement a full-blown typed meta-level interface, including both introspective and introcessory capabilities. The central component of the metalevel architecture is the runtime system. It is viewed as a virtual machine implementing the functionality of the programming language, and therefore provides a natural entity to be extended with a meta-level interface.
The meta-level interface is based on a novel language construct, a meta-reference called attribute reference.
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