More programming pearls: confessions of a coder
More programming pearls: confessions of a coder
Efficient method dispatch in PCL
LFP '90 Proceedings of the 1990 ACM conference on LISP and functional programming
A scheme for little languages in interactive graphics
Software—Practice & Experience
Optimizing multi-method dispatch using compressed dispatch tables
OOPSLA '94 Proceedings of the ninth annual conference on Object-oriented programming systems, language, and applications
Multiple-dispatching based on automata
Theory and Practice of Object Systems - Special issue on the 1994 European Conference of Object Oriented Programming
PEPM '97 Proceedings of the 1997 ACM SIGPLAN symposium on Partial evaluation and semantics-based program manipulation
Taming Message Passing: Efficient Method Look-Up for Dynamically Typed Languages
ECOOP '94 Proceedings of the 8th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming
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We describe our experience with SILK, a Scheme dialect written in Java. SILK grazes symbiotically on Java's reflective layer, enriching itself with Java's classes and their behavior. This is done with three procedures. (constructor) and (method) provide access to a specific Java constructor or method respectively. (import) allows the entire behavior of a class to be imported easily. (import) converts Java methods into generic functions that take methods written in Java or Scheme. In return, SILK provides Java applications with an interactive development and debugging environment that can be used to develop graphical applications from the convenience of your web browser. Also, because SILK has introspective access into Java, it can also be used for compile time metaobject scripting. For example, it can generate a new class using an old one as a template.