Macro processing in object-oriented languages

Author

Chiba, Shigeru

Author_Institution

Inst. of Inf. Sci. & Electron., Tsukuba Univ., Ibaraki, Japan

fYear

1998

fDate

23-26 Nov 1998

Firstpage

113

Lastpage

126

Abstract

There are a number of programmable macro systems such as Lisp´s. While they can handle complex program transformation, they still have difficulty in handling some kinds of transformation typical in object oriented programming. The paper examines this problem and, to address it, presents an advanced macro system based on ideas borrowed from reflection. Unlike other macro systems, our macro system provides metaobjects as the data structure used for the macro processing, instead of an abstract syntax tree. This feature makes it easy to implement a range of transformations of object oriented programs

Keywords

abstract data types; macros; object-oriented languages; object-oriented programming; Lisp; advanced macro system; complex program transformation; data structure; macro processing; metaobjects; object oriented languages; object oriented program transformations; object oriented programming; programmable macro systems; reflection; Control systems; Fault tolerance; Feedback; Information analysis; Information science; Object oriented programming; Programming profession; Reflection; Tree data structures;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Technology of Object-Oriented Languages, 1998. TOOLS 28. Proceedings

Conference_Location

Melbourne, Vic.

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0053-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/TOOLS.1998.750029

Filename

750029