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SPLASH 2016
Sun 30 October - Fri 4 November 2016 Amsterdam, Netherlands
Sun 30 Oct 2016 16:40 - 17:20 at Matterhorn 3 - Mirror-based Reflection Chair(s): Elisa Gonzalez Boix

Reflection allows programmers to inspect and modify the structural and runtime properties of a software system. Traditionally, the architecture of a reflective system has been a monolithic part of the runtime system, featuring a fixed semantics. Mirror-based reflective architectures decouple the base-level entities from their meta-level counterparts. In this work, we explore ChromaKey, a design to go yet one step further. ChromaKey enables the user extend the reflective system in two dimensions: the semantics of reflective objects and reflection on syntax extensions of the host language. The first axis decouples the reflective system from a specific mirror interface. The second axis allows existing hierarchies of reflective objects to be extended. The key component is a generic reflecting component that "parses'' class definitions according to a given semantics, specified by generic factories (Object Algebras).

ChromaKey (meta16-final8.pdf)189KiB
Slides (chromakey.pdf)671KiB

Sun 30 Oct

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15:40 - 17:20
Mirror-based ReflectionMETA at Matterhorn 3
Chair(s): Elisa Gonzalez Boix Vrije Universiteit Brussel
15:40
60m
Talk
Reflection in Dart: A Cautionary Experience
META
K: Gilad Bracha Google
16:40
40m
Talk
ChromaKey: Towards Extensible Mirror Architectures
META
Pablo Inostroza CWI, Tijs van der Storm CWI & University of Groningen
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