Reflection and metalevel architectures in object-oriented programming (workshop session)

Abstract

Recently, the notion of having object-oriented languages that allow their programs to reason about themselves or reflect on their computations has attracted the attention of many researchers. This interest in reflection did not materialize until Pattie Maes presented her paper “Concepts and Experiments in Computational Reflection,” at OOPSLA-87, in which she exposed the strong relationship between reflection and object-oriented programming. Since then, many others have developed and implemented several object-oriented languages and systems that provide reflective facilities.