%0 Journal Article %1 Mostinckx:2009:MRA %A Mostinckx, Stijn %A Van Cutsem, Tom %A Timbermont, Stijn %A Gonzalez Boix, Elisa %A Tanter, Éric %A De Meuter, Wolfgang %C New York, NY, USA %D 2009 %I John Wiley & Sons, Inc. %J Softw. Pract. Exper. %K AmbientTalk MOP MetaProgramming Mirrors Reflection %N 7 %P 661--699 %R 10.1002/spe.v39:7 %T Mirror-based Reflection in AmbientTalk %V 39 %X This paper introduces a novel mechanism to perform intercession (a form of reflection) in an object-oriented programming language with the goal of making the language extensible from within itself. The proposed mechanism builds upon a mirror-based architecture, leading to a reusable reflective application programming interface that cleanly separates interface from implementation details. However, support for <i>intercession</i> has been limited in contemporary mirror-based architectures. This is due to the fact that mirror-based architectures only support reflection explicitly triggered by metaprograms, while intercession requires reflection implicitly triggered by the language interpreter. This work reconciles mirrors with intercession in the context of an actor-based, object-oriented programming language named AmbientTalk. We describe this language's full reflective architecture, highlighting its novel mirror-based approach to reflect upon both objects and concurrently executing actors. Subsequently, we apply AmbientTalk's mirror-based reflection to implement two language features, which crucially depend on intercession, to wit future-type message passing and leased object references. Copyright &copy; 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.</p> <p>This work is based on an earlier work: Behavioral Intercession in a Mirror-based Architecture, in Proceedings of the 2007 Symposium on Dynamic Languages (DLS 2007) &copy; ACM, 2007. .

@article{Mostinckx:2009:MRA, abstract = {This paper introduces a novel mechanism to perform intercession (a form of reflection) in an object-oriented programming language with the goal of making the language extensible from within itself. The proposed mechanism builds upon a mirror-based architecture, leading to a reusable reflective application programming interface that cleanly separates interface from implementation details. However, support for <i>intercession</i> has been limited in contemporary mirror-based architectures. This is due to the fact that mirror-based architectures only support reflection explicitly triggered by metaprograms, while intercession requires reflection implicitly triggered by the language interpreter. This work reconciles mirrors with intercession in the context of an actor-based, object-oriented programming language named AmbientTalk. We describe this language's full reflective architecture, highlighting its novel mirror-based approach to reflect upon both objects and concurrently executing actors. Subsequently, we apply AmbientTalk's mirror-based reflection to implement two language features, which crucially depend on intercession, to wit future-type message passing and leased object references. Copyright &copy; 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.</p> <p>This work is based on an earlier work: Behavioral Intercession in a Mirror-based Architecture, in Proceedings of the 2007 Symposium on Dynamic Languages (DLS 2007) &copy; ACM, 2007. .}, acmid = {1526249}, added-at = {2013-04-11T14:34:01.000+0200}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Mostinckx, Stijn and Van Cutsem, Tom and Timbermont, Stijn and Gonzalez Boix, Elisa and Tanter, \'{E}ric and De Meuter, Wolfgang}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/203aa1a72f2cb795351e789eba27605ee/gron}, description = {Mirror-based reflection in AmbientTalk}, doi = {10.1002/spe.v39:7}, interhash = {d02ddccf6ee7eb0a74f70dbb7d4844f0}, intrahash = {03aa1a72f2cb795351e789eba27605ee}, issn = {0038-0644}, issue_date = {May 2009}, journal = {Softw. Pract. Exper.}, keywords = {AmbientTalk MOP MetaProgramming Mirrors Reflection}, month = may, number = 7, numpages = {39}, pages = {661--699}, publisher = {John Wiley \& Sons, Inc.}, timestamp = {2013-04-11T14:34:01.000+0200}, title = {Mirror-based Reflection in AmbientTalk}, volume = 39, year = 2009 }