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Stratego / Meta Programming With_ Concrete Object Syntax_


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E. Visser. Meta-programming with concrete object syntax. In D. Batory, C. Consel, and W. Taha, editors, Generative Programming and Component Engineering (GPCE'02), volume 2487 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 299-315, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, October 2002. Springer-Verlag. 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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