Excellent!
Alexandre
On 20 Mar 2010, at 19:58, Marcus Denker wrote:
Lukas Renggli, Marcus Denker, and Oscar Nierstrasz:
Language Boxes. Bending the Host Language with Modular Language
Changes
In: Software Language Engineering: Second International Conference,
SLE 2009,
Denver, Colorado, October 5-6, 2009, LNCS 5969 p. 274—293, Springer,
2009.
Abstract
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As domain-specific modeling begins to attract widespread acceptance,
pressure is increasing for the development of new domain-specific
languages.
Unfortunately these DSLs typically conflict with the grammar of the
host language,
making it difficult to compose hybrid code except at the level of
strings; few
mechanisms (if any) exist to control the scope of usage of multiple
DSLs; and,
most seriously, existing host language tools are typically unaware
of the DSL
extensions, thus hampering the development process. Language boxes
address
these issues by offering a simple, modular mechanism to encapsulate
(i) compositional changes to the host language, (ii) transformations
to address
various concerns such as compilation and highlighting, and (iii)
scoping rules
to control visibility of language extensions. We describe the design
and
implementation of language boxes, and show with the help of several
examples how modular extensions can be introduced to a host language
and environment.
http://scg.unibe.ch/archive/papers/Reng09cLanguageBoxes.pdf
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INRIA Lille -- Nord Europe. Team RMoD.
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