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Reflection for statically typed languages

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ECOOP’98 — Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 1998)

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An object-oriented language that permits changing the behavior of a class or of a single object is said to support computational reflection. Existing reflective facilities in object-oriented languages are either complex, type unsafe, or have a large performance penalty. We propose a simple, easy-to-understand, and statically typed model that captures much of the functionalities of other reflective facilities. It brings the power of reflection to the world of type safe and efficient languages.

This work was partially supported by CNPq, the Brazilian financial agency for scientific projects under process number 200466-94.1

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de Oliveira GuimarÃes, J. (1998). Reflection for statically typed languages. In: Jul, E. (eds) ECOOP’98 — Object-Oriented Programming. ECOOP 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1445. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0054103

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