Strategies In Program Transformation Systems

Strategies play an important role in ProgramTransformation. The purpose of this survey is to get an overview of the styles of strategies used in various TransformationSystems. Comments are welcome. -- EelcoVisser - 15 Mar 2001

Taxonomy

In order to compare strategies in different systems it is necessary to know what they are, i.e., we need a taxonomy of strategies.

• What is a strategy? Is there a definition of strategies that covers many systems, but is still meaningful?

Systems

The role of strategies in a number of existing systems each representing a paradigm for program transformation.

• StrategiesInRewriting^?
• StrategiesInStratego^?
• StrategiesInELAN^?
• StrategiesInASFSDF^?

• StrategiesInAttributeGrammars^?

• StrategiesInFunctionalPrograms^?