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9780262610742

The Art of the Metaobject Protocol

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  • ISBN13:

    9780262610742

  • ISBN10:

    0262610744

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1991-07-30
  • Publisher: The MIT Press

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Summary

This book presents a new approach to programming language design, which resolves fundamental tensions between elegance and efficiency.

Author Biography

Gregor Kiczales is a Member of the Research Staff in the System Sciences Laboratory at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center.

Jim des Rivières is a Member of the Research Staff in the System Sciences Laboratory at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center.

Daniel G. Bobrow is a Research Fellow in the Intelligent Systems Laboratory, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, editor-in-chief of the Journal of Artificial Intelligence, and Chair of the Governing Board of the Cognitive Science Society.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1(12)
I THE DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF METAOBJECT PROTOCOLS
How CLOS is Implemented
13(34)
A Subset of CLOS
14(1)
The Basic Backstage Structures
15(2)
Representing Classes
17(9)
Printing Objects
26(1)
Representing the Structure of Instances
26(8)
Representing Generic Functions
34(2)
Representing Methods
36(4)
Invoking Generic Functions
40(5)
A Word About Performance
45(1)
Summary
45(2)
Introspection and Analysis
47(24)
Introducing Class Metaobjects
48(4)
Browsing Classes
52(6)
Browsing Generic Functions
58(8)
Programmatic Creation of New Classes
66(3)
Summary
69(2)
Extending the Language
71(36)
Specialized Class Metaobjects
72(2)
Terminology
74(2)
Using Specialized Class Metaobject Classes
76(2)
Class Precedence Lists
78(5)
Slot Inheritance
83(7)
Other Inheritance Protocols
90(6)
Slot Access
96(3)
Instance Allocation
99(6)
Summary
105(2)
Protocol Design
107(30)
A Simple Generic Function Invocation Protocol
107(3)
Functional and Procedural Protocols
110(9)
Layered Protocols
119(6)
Improving Performance
125(6)
Protocol Design Summary
131(6)
II A METAOBJECT PROTOCOL FOR CLOS
Concepts
137(26)
Introduction
137(1)
Metaobjects
137(3)
Inheritance Structure of Metaobject Classes
140(5)
Processing of the User Interface Macros
145(8)
Subprotocols
153(10)
Generic Functions and Methods
163(80)
A Introduction to CLOS 243(12)
B Solutions to Selected Exercises 255(14)
C Living with Circularity 269(8)
D A Working Closette Implementation 277(40)
E Cross Reference to Full MOP 317(8)
References 325(2)
Index 327

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