As a programming language fan and writer of many interpreters, I’m interested in metaprogramming. Some links I found useful:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaprogramming
Metaprogramming is the writing of computer programs that write or manipulate other programs (or themselves) as their data, or that do part of the work at compile time that would otherwise be done at runtime. In some cases, this allows programmers to minimize the number of lines of code to express a solution (hence reducing development time), or it gives programs greater flexibility to efficiently handle new situations without recompilation.
magarciaEPFL / MethodHandleUtils
https://github.com/magarciaEPFL/MethodHandleUtils
JVM: Composing MethodHandles at runtime like AST nodes
Runtime metaprogramming via java.lang.invoke.MethodHandle
http://lampwww.epfl.ch/~magarcia/ScalaCompilerCornerReloaded/2012Q2/RuntimeMP.pdf
Ruby Metaprogramming: Declaratively Adding Methods to a Class
http://www.vitarara.org/cms/ruby_metaprogamming_declaratively_adding_methods_to_a_class
dlitvakb / MetaBuilder
https://github.com/dlitvakb/MetaBuilder
A Ruby MetaProgramming Excercise
Adding Properties to Ruby Metaprogramatically
http://www.infoq.com/articles/properties-metaprogramming
Ruby: More About Methods
http://ruby-doc.org/docs/ProgrammingRuby/html/tut_methods.html
Calling Methods Dynamically
http://www.linuxtopia.org/online_books/programming_books/ruby_tutorial/Reflection_ObjectSpace_and_Distributed__Ruby_Calling_Methods_Dynamically.html
Ruby dynamic method calling
http://khelll.com/blog/ruby/ruby-dynamic-method-calling/
celluloid / celluloid
Actor-based concurrent object framework for Ruby
MetaProgramming – Extending Ruby for Fun and Profit
http://www.infoq.com/presentations/metaprogramming-ruby
Three implicit contexts in Ruby
http://yugui.jp/articles/846
Yehuda Katz wrote an article about self and metaclass. In the article he said that Person.instance_eval assigns Person’s metaclass to self for a class Person. But this is obviously wrong.
Ruby always has three implicit contexts: self), so called `klass’ and the constant definition point.
Metaprogramming in Ruby: It’s All About the Self
http://yehudakatz.com/2009/11/15/metaprogramming-in-ruby-its-all-about-the-self/
class << self idiom in Ruby
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2505067/class-self-idiom-in-ruby
ClassInstanceVariable
http://martinfowler.com/bliki/ClassInstanceVariable.html
Default Ruby accessor method?
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/636277/default-ruby-accessor-method
method_missing; it gets called whenever an undefined method is used
A Logic Meta-Programming Approach
to Support the Co-Evolution of
Object-Oriented Design and Implementation
http://scg.unibe.ch/archive/phd/Wuyts-phd.pdf
Meta-level Programming with CodA
http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.108.6885
C#5 and Meta-Programming
http://codebetter.com/patricksmacchia/2010/05/31/c-5-and-meta-programming/
Metaprogramming in .NET
http://www.manning.com/hazzard/
Whole Platform
http://whole.sourceforge.net/
the Whole Platform provides an Eclipse-based Language Workbench for developing new languages, manipulating them using domain notations and transforming them using a generative model driven approach.
Code Generation on the JVM: Writing Code that Writes Code
http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Code-Generation-on-the-JVM
Rascal – Meta Programming Language
http://www.rascal-mpl.org/
Rascal is a domain specific language for source code analysis and manipulation a.k.a. meta-programming.
Write A Template Compiler For Erlang
http://evanmiller.org/write-a-template-compiler-for-erlang.html
Implementing the Django Template Language in Erlang
Groovy: Best Practices Developed From Distributed Polyglot Programming
http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Groovy-Best-Practices
The Magnificent Seven
http://fogus.me/static/preso/magnificent7/#slide1
creating a Lisp variant in seven forms
The calculator language tutorial
http://www.jetbrains.com/mps/docs/tutorial.html
The art of metaprogramming, Part 1: Introduction to metaprogramming
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-metaprog1/index.html
One of the most under-used programming techniques is writing programs that generate programs or program parts. Learn why metaprogramming is necessary and look at some of the components of metaprogramming (textual macro languages, specialized code generators). See how to build a code generator and get a closer look at language-sensitive macro programming in Scheme.
Through the Looking Glass Darkly
http://gbracha.blogspot.com.ar/2010/03/through-looking-glass-darkly.html
The classic approach to reflection in object-oriented programming languages originates with Smalltalk, and is used in most class based languages that support reflection: define a reflective API on Objec
nother approach is used in many scripting languages. The language constructs themselves introduce code on the fly, modifying the program as they are executed.
The third approach is that of mirrors, and originates in Self. Mirrors have been used in class based systems such as Strongtalk, and even in the Java world. JDI, the Java Debugger Interface, is a mirror based reflective API. Here, the reflective operations are separated into distinct objects called mirrors.
Mirrors: Design Principles for Meta-level Facilities of Object-Oriented Programming Languages
http://www.bracha.org/mirrors.pdf
Metaprogramming: Ruby vs. Javascript
http://fingernailsinoatmeal.com/post/292301859/metaprogramming-ruby-vs-javascript
Metaprogramming in Ruby
http://ruby-metaprogramming.rubylearning.com/
A Basic YAML Config Module For Ruby
http://lostechies.com/derickbailey/2009/10/05/a-basic-yaml-config-module-for-ruby/
Categories, the homemade object system
http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/3569
Categories
http://mikelevins.livejournal.com/3678.html
Why? Language Archaeology … and Metaprogramming
http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=260578
Metaclasses Demystified
http://cleverdevil.org/computing/78/
The word “metaclass” often strikes fear into the hearts of Python programmers. This article explores metaclasses in an approachable way, in order to take the mystery out of metaclasses, and enable you to leverage metaprogramming techniques to solve real problems.
Dupping Our Way Out of Instance Eval
http://banisterfiend.wordpress.com/2008/12/19/dupping-our-way-out-of-instance-eval/
Ruby.rewrite(Ruby)
http://www.infoq.com/presentations/braithwaite-rewrite-ruby
In this RubyFringe talk, Reginald Braithwaite shows how to write Ruby that reads, writes, and rewrites Ruby. The demos include extending the Ruby language with conditional expressions, new forms of evaluation such as call-by-name and call-by-need, and more.
Smalltalk magritte-metamodel
http://code.google.com/p/magritte-metamodel/
Magritte is a fully dynamic meta-description framework that helps to solve those problems, while keeping the full power to the programmer in all aspects.
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