{"title":"Proxies: design principles for robust object-oriented intercession APIs","authors":"T. V. Cutsem, Mark S. Miller","doi":"10.1145/1869631.1869638","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"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.","PeriodicalId":344101,"journal":{"name":"Dynamic Languages Symposium","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2010-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"91","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Dynamic Languages Symposium","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1869631.1869638","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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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.