MetaFJig: a meta-circular composition language for Java-like classes

@article{Servetto2010MetaFJigAM,
  title={MetaFJig: a meta-circular composition language for Java-like classes},
  author={Marco Servetto and Elena Zucca},
  journal={Proceedings of the ACM international conference on Object oriented programming systems languages and applications},
  year={2010}
}
  • M. Servetto, E. Zucca
  • Published 17 October 2010
  • Computer Science
  • Proceedings of the ACM international conference on Object oriented programming systems languages and applications
We propose a Java-like language where class definitions are first class values and new classes can be derived from existing ones by exploiting the full power of the language itself, used on top of a small set of primitive composition operators, instead of using a fixed mechanism like inheritance. Hence, compilation requires to perform (meta-)reduction steps, by a process that we call compile-time execution. This approach differs from meta-programming techniques available in mainstream languages… 
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