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Type-Safe Linguistic Run-time Reflection A Practical Perspective

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Fully Integrated Data Environments

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This paper describes the use of reflection to create programs which modify themselves, the difficulties in writing such programs and a practical tool for making reflective programming easier.

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  1. Cooper R and Kirby GNC. Type-Safe Linguistic Run-time Reflection—A Practical Perspective. In: Atkinson MP, Maier D, Benzaken V (eds) Persistent Object Systems, Tarascon 1994, Proc. 6th International Workshop on Persistent Object Systems, Tarascon, France. Workshops in Computing, Springer-Verlag, 1994, pp 332–354.

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  1. Dept. of Computing Science, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8QQ, Scotland

    Richard Cooper

  2. Division of Computer Science, University of St Andrews, North Haugh, St Andrews, Fife, KYI6 9SS, Scotland

    Graham Kirby

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Cooper, R., Kirby, G. (2000). Type-Safe Linguistic Run-time Reflection A Practical Perspective. In: Atkinson, M.P., Welland, R. (eds) Fully Integrated Data Environments. Esprit Basic Research Series. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-59623-0_9

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