Proxies: Design Principles for Robust Object-oriented Intercession APIs

Tom Van Cutsem; Mark Miller; Will Clinger

Proxies: Design Principles for Robust Object-oriented Intercession APIs

Tom Van Cutsem, Mark Miller, Will Clinger (Editor)

Informatics and Applied Informatics

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Abstract

Proxies are a powerful approach to implement meta-objects in object-oriented languages without having to resort to metacircular interpretation. We introduce such a meta-level API based on proxies for Javascript. We simultaneously introduce a set of design principles that characterize such APIs in general, and compare similar APIs of other languages in terms of these principles. We highlight how principled proxy-based APIs improve code robustness by avoiding interference between base and meta-level code that occur in more common reflective intercession mechanisms.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	59-72
Number of pages	14
Journal	ACM SIGPLAN Notices
Volume	42
Publication status	Published - Dec 2010

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Will Clinger

Keywords

Proxies
Javascript
Reflection
Intercession

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Proxies: Design Principles for Robust Object-oriented Intercession APIs

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