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.
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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} }