Proxies: design principles for robust object-oriented intercession APIs

  • Authors:
  • Tom Van Cutsem;Mark S. Miller

  • Affiliations:
  • Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium;Google Inc., Mountain View, CA, USA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 6th symposium on Dynamic languages
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Proxies are a powerful approach to implement meta-objects in object-oriented languages without having to resort to metacircular interpretation. We introduce such a meta-level API based on proxies for Javascript. We simultaneously introduce a set of design principles that characterize such APIs in general, and compare similar APIs of other languages in terms of these principles. We highlight how principled proxy-based APIs improve code robustness by avoiding interference between base and meta-level code that occur in more common reflective intercession mechanisms.