Strategic programming meets adaptive programming

Strategic programming is a generic programming idiom for processing compound data such as terms or object structures. At the heart of the approach is the separation of two concerns: basic dataprocessing computations vs. traversal schemes. Actual traversals are composed by passing the former as arguments to the latter. Traversal schemes can be defined by the strategic programmer using a combinator style that relies on primitives for layered traversal. In this paper, we take a look at strategic programming from an aspect-oriented programming perspective. Throughout the paper, we compare strategic programming with adaptive programming, which is a well-established aspectual approach to the traversal of object structures. We start from the observation that aspect-oriented programming terms, e.g., crosscutting, join point, and advice can be instantiated for aspectual traversal approaches. Categories and Subject Descriptors

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2003
• Where: AOSD
• Authors: Ralf Lämmel, Eelco Visser, Joost Visser
• Keywords: AOSD 2003, Object Structures, Software Engineering, Strategic Programming, Traversal Schemes