Promises: linguistic support for efficient asynchronous procedure calls in distributed systems
PLDI '88 Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN 1988 conference on Programming Language design and Implementation
Virtual classes: a powerful mechanism in object-oriented programming
OOPSLA '89 Conference proceedings on Object-oriented programming systems, languages and applications
OOPSLA/ECOOP '90 Proceedings of the European conference on object-oriented programming on Object-oriented programming systems, languages, and applications
Subject-oriented programming: a critique of pure objects
OOPSLA '93 Proceedings of the eighth annual conference on Object-oriented programming systems, languages, and applications
Design patterns: elements of reusable object-oriented software
Design patterns: elements of reusable object-oriented software
Subject-oriented composition rules
Proceedings of the tenth annual conference on Object-oriented programming systems, languages, and applications
Object-oriented programming in the BETA programming language
Object-oriented programming in the BETA programming language
Active object: an object behavioral pattern for concurrent programming
Pattern languages of program design 2
Hyper/J: multi-dimensional separation of concerns for Java
Proceedings of the 22nd international conference on Software engineering
Java Language Specification, Second Edition: The Java Series
Java Language Specification, Second Edition: The Java Series
The Art of the Metaobject Protocol
The Art of the Metaobject Protocol
Beyond the Black Box: Open Implementation
IEEE Software
J&: nested intersection for scalable software composition
Proceedings of the 21st annual ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented programming systems, languages, and applications
Expressive scoping of dynamically-deployed aspects
Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Aspect-oriented software development
The art of the meta-aspect protocol
Proceedings of the 8th ACM international conference on Aspect-oriented software development
Groovy package templates: supporting reuse and runtime adaption of class hierarchies
DLS '09 Proceedings of the 5th symposium on Dynamic languages
Modules as objects in newspeak
ECOOP'10 Proceedings of the 24th European conference on Object-oriented programming
Transactions on Aspect-Oriented Software Development I
Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Generative Programming and Component Engineering
Challenges in the design of the package template mechanism
Transactions on Aspect-Oriented Software Development IX
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In addition to traditional object-oriented (OO) concepts such as inheritance and polymorphism, several modularization and composition mechanisms like e.g. traits, mixins and virtual classes have emerged. The Package Template mechanism is another attempt at providing a flexible mechanism for modularization, composition and adaption. Dynamic languages have traditionally employed strong support for meta-programming, with hooks to control OO concepts such as method invocation and object construction, by utilizing meta-classes and meta-object protocols. In this work, we attempt to bring a corresponding degree of meta-level control to composition primitives, with a concrete starting point in the package template mechanism as developed for the dynamic language Groovy. We wish to support a wide range of possible composition semantics, and to make such choices available to the developer through a meta-level API. This API should be extensible, and the semantic variations should be applied within well-defined scopes.