Experiences with an object-oriented, multi-stage language

✍ Scribed by Gregory Neverov; Paul Roe

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 222 KB
• Volume: 62
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0167-6423
• DOI: 10.1016/j.scico.2006.05.002

✦ Synopsis

Metaphor is a multi-stage programming language extension to an imperative, object-oriented language in the style of C# or Java. This paper discusses some issues we faced when applying multi-stage language design concepts to an imperative base language and run-time environment. The issues range from dealing with pervasive references and open code to garbage collection and implementing cross-stage persistence.