Reflective facilities in Smalltalk-80

Computational reflection makes it easy to solve problems that are otherwise difficult to address in Smalltalk-80, such as the construction of monitors, distributed objects, and futures, and can allow experimentation with new inheritance, delegation, and protection schemes. Full reflection is expensi...

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Main Authors: Foote, B., Johnson, R. E.
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
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Software and its engineering > Software creation and management > Software development techniques
Software and its engineering > Software creation and management > Software development techniques > Reusability
Software and its engineering > Software notations and tools > General programming languages > Language features
Software and its engineering > Software notations and tools > General programming languages > Language types
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Summary:Computational reflection makes it easy to solve problems that are otherwise difficult to address in Smalltalk-80, such as the construction of monitors, distributed objects, and futures, and can allow experimentation with new inheritance, delegation, and protection schemes. Full reflection is expensive to implement. However, the ability to override method lookup can bring much of the power of reflection to languages like Smalltalk-80 at no cost in efficiency.
ISSN:0362-1340
DOI:10.1145/74877.74911