The Dolorem Pattern: Growing a Language Through Compile-Time Function Execution (Artifact)

Authors Simon Henniger, Nada Amin



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Simon Henniger
  • Technische Universität München, Germany
Nada Amin
  • Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA

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Simon Henniger and Nada Amin. The Dolorem Pattern: Growing a Language Through Compile-Time Function Execution (Artifact). In Special Issue of the 37th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2023). Dagstuhl Artifacts Series (DARTS), Volume 9, Issue 2, pp. 13:1-13:3, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2023) https://doi.org/10.4230/DARTS.9.2.13

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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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  • Software and its engineering → Compilers
  • Software and its engineering → Language features
Keywords
  • extensible languages
  • meta programming
  • macros
  • program generation
  • compilation

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