Year: 1991
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: We consider how reflection should be introduced into an actor language, where reflection is a mechanism for allowing a program to have access to the data structures of its own processor. Rather than introducing meta-objects as in the previous work, we propose to introduce reflection through two kinds of special messages: reifying and reflecting messages. We show that the full range of reflective programming in an actor language is possible without introducing meta-objects, and argue that our approach provides a more uniform interface for actors than the meta-object approach. All the examples in this paper have been tested on our prototype actor system.
Author: Tanaka Tomoyuki
Institution: IBM Research - Tokyo
Language: English
Subfield: Software
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2020766505