Concepts and experiments in computational reflection
OOPSLA '87 Conference proceedings on Object-oriented programming systems, languages and applications
Programming in Oberon: steps beyond Pascal and Modula
Programming in Oberon: steps beyond Pascal and Modula
Evaluation of Object-Oriented Reflective Models
ECOOP '98 Workshop ion on Object-Oriented Technology
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Multiple dispatch in reflective runtime environment
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Proceedings of the 6th international workshop on Adaptive and reflective middleware: held at the ACM/IFIP/USENIX International Middleware Conference
Efficient virtual machine support of runtime structural reflection
Science of Computer Programming
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SE '08 Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference on Software Engineering
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Computational reflection provides the developers with a programming mechanism devoted to favorite code extensibility, reuse and maintenance. Notwithstanding that, it has not achieved developers' unanimous acceptance and its full potential yet. In our opinion, this depends on the intrinsic complexity of most of the reflective approaches that hinders their efficient implementation. The aim of this paper consists of defining the essence of reflection, that is, to identify the minimal set of characteristics that a software system must have to be considered reflective. The consequence is the realization of a run-time environment supporting the essence of reflection without affecting the programming language and with a minimal impact on the programming system design. This achievement will improve reflective system performances reducing the impact of one of the most diffuse criticism about reflection: low performance.