Meta Programming With Concrete Object Syntax
Stratego -- Strategies for Program Transformation
E. Visser.
Meta-programming with concrete object syntax. In D. Batory, C. Consel, and W. Taha, editors,
Generative Programming and Component Engineering (GPCE'02), volume 2487 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 299-315, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, October 2002. Springer-Verlag.
Abstract
Meta programs manipulate structured representations (abstract syntax)
of programs. The distance between the concrete syntax meta-programmers
use to reason about programs and the notation for abstract syntax
manipulation provided by general purpose (meta-) programming languages
is too great for many applications. In this paper it is shown how the
syntax definition formalism
SDF can be employed to fit a
meta-programming language with concrete syntax notation for composing
and analyzing object programs. As a case study, the addition of
concrete syntax to the program transformation language Stratego is
presented. The approach is then generalized to arbitrary
meta-languages.
Technical report
BibTex
@InProceedings{Vis02.gpce,
author = {Eelco Visser},
title = {Meta-Programming with Concrete Object Syntax},
booktitle = {Generative Programming and Component Engineering (GPCE'02)},
pages = {299--315},
year = 2002,
editor = {Don Batory and Charles Consel and Walid Taha},
volume = 2487,
series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
address = {Pittsburgh, PA, USA},
month = {October},
publisher = {Springer-Verlag}
}
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