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Meta-level Programming with CodA

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ECOOP’95 — Object-Oriented Programming, 9th European Conference, Åarhus, Denmark, August 7–11, 1995 (ECOOP 1995)

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Meta-levels are complex pieces of software with diverse demands in both the computation and interaction domains. Common techniques using just code to express behaviour fail to clearly assign responsibility for a particular behaviour’s definition or to provide support for the reuse or integration of existing behaviour descriptions. The techniques of fine-grained decomposition of meta-level behaviour into objects and their subsequent composition into object models provides a framework for creating, reusing and integrating complex object behaviours. Using such a framework, we show that users can develop and integrate quite different object models while retaining a high degree of abstraction and fostering meta-level component reuse.

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  1. Department of Information Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo

    Jeff McAffer

  2. Object Technology International, Canada

    Jeff McAffer

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Keio University, 3-14-1 Hiyoshi, Kohoku-ku, Yokohama, 223, Japan

    Mario Tokoro

  2. Rank Xerox Research Centre, 6 Chemin de Maupertuis, F-38240, Meylan, France

    Remo Pareschi

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McAffer, J. (1995). Meta-level Programming with CodA. In: Tokoro, M., Pareschi, R. (eds) ECOOP’95 — Object-Oriented Programming, 9th European Conference, Åarhus, Denmark, August 7–11, 1995. ECOOP 1995. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 952. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-49538-X_10

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