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DLS
2008
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Contextual values
Context-oriented programming proposes to treat execution context explicitly and to provide means for context-dependent adaptation at runtime. There are many mechanisms that can be...
Éric Tanter
DLS
2008
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A parsing machine for PEGs
Parsing Expression Grammar (PEG) is a recognition-based foundation for describing syntax that renewed interest in top-down parsing approaches. Generally, the implementation of PEG...
Sérgio Medeiros, Roberto Ierusalimschy
DLS
2008
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Gradual typing with unification-based inference
Static and dynamic type systems have well-known strengths and weaknesses. Gradual typing provides the benefits of both in a single language by giving the programmer control over w...
Jeremy G. Siek, Manish Vachharajani
DLS
2008
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Filtered dispatch
Predicate dispatching is a generalized form of dynamic dispatch, which has strong limitations when arbitrary predicates of the underlying base language are used. Unlike classes, w...
Pascal Costanza, Charlotte Herzeel, Jorge Vallejos...
DLS
2007
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14 years 1 months ago
Arrays of objects
Morten Kromberg
DLS
2007
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An adaptive package management system for scheme
This paper presents a package management system for the Scheme programming language. It is inspired by the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN) and various GNU/Linux distribu...
Manuel Serrano, Erick Gallesio
DLS
2005
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14 years 1 months ago
Higher order messaging
Marcel Weiher, Stéphane Ducasse
DLS
2005
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Language constructs for context-oriented programming: an overview of ContextL
ContextL is an extension to the Common Lisp Object System that allows for Context-oriented Programming. It provides means to associate partial class and method definitions with l...
Pascal Costanza, Robert Hirschfeld
DLS
2005
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Compile-time meta-programming in a dynamically typed OO language
Compile-time meta-programming allows programs to be constructed by the user at compile-time. Although LISP derived languages have long had such facilities, few modern languages ar...
Laurence Tratt