The art of the metaobject protocol / Gregor Kiczales, Jim des Rivières, and Daniel G. Bobrow.
1991
QA76.73.C28 K53 1991eb
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Title
The art of the metaobject protocol / Gregor Kiczales, Jim des Rivières, and Daniel G. Bobrow.
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0585358125 (electronic bk.)
9780585358123 (electronic bk.)
0262277085 (electronic bk.)
9780262277082 (electronic bk.)
9780262111584
9780585358123 (electronic bk.)
0262277085 (electronic bk.)
9780262277082 (electronic bk.)
9780262111584
Publication Details
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1991.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (viii, 335 pages)
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QA76.73.C28 K53 1991eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
005.13/3
Summary
The authors introduce this new approach to programming language design, describe its evolution and design principles, and present a formal specification of a metaobject protocol for CLOS. The CLOS metaobject protocol is an elegant, high-performance extension to the CommonLisp Object System. The authors, who developed the metaobject protocol and who were among the group that developed CLOS, introduce this new approach to programming language design, describe its evolution and design principles, and present a formal specification of a metaobject protocol for CLOS. Kiczales, des Rivir̈es, and Bobrow show that the "art of metaobject protocol design" lies in creating a synthetic combination of object-oriented and reflective techniques that can be applied under existing software engineering considerations to yield a new approach to programming language design that meets a broad set of design criteria. One of the major benefits of including the metaobject protocol in programming languages is that it allows users to adjust the language to better suit their needs. Metaobject protocols also disprove the adage that adding more flexibility to a programming language reduces its performance. In presenting the principles of metaobject protocols, the authors work with actual code for a simplified implementation of CLOS and its metaobject protocol, providing an opportunity for the reader to gain hands-on experience with the design process. They also include a number of exercises that address important concerns and open issues.
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