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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2023.41
URN: urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-182343
URL: http://dagstuhl.sunsite.rwth-aachen.de/volltexte/2023/18234/
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Henniger, Simon ; Amin, Nada

The Dolorem Pattern: Growing a Language Through Compile-Time Function Execution (Pearl/Brave New Idea)

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Abstract

Programming languages are often designed as static, monolithic units. As a result, they are inflexible. We show a new mechanism of programming language design that allows to more flexible languages: by using compile-time function execution and metaprogramming, we implement a language mostly in itself. Our approach is usable for creating feature-rich, yet low-overhead system programming languages. We illustrate it on two systems, one that lowers to C and one that lowers to LLVM.

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@InProceedings{henniger_et_al:LIPIcs.ECOOP.2023.41,
  author =	{Henniger, Simon and Amin, Nada},
  title =	{{The Dolorem Pattern: Growing a Language Through Compile-Time Function Execution}},
  booktitle =	{37th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2023)},
  pages =	{41:1--41:27},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-281-5},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2023},
  volume =	{263},
  editor =	{Ali, Karim and Salvaneschi, Guido},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2023/18234},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-182343},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2023.41},
  annote =	{Keywords: extensible languages, meta programming, macros, program generation, compilation}
}

Keywords: extensible languages, meta programming, macros, program generation, compilation
Collection: 37th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2023)
Issue Date: 2023
Date of publication: 11.07.2023
Supplementary Material: Software (ECOOP 2023 Artifact Evaluation approved artifact): https://doi.org/10.4230/DARTS.9.2.13
Software: https://zenodo.org/record/7720029

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