• Metaclass (redirect from Metaclasses)
    metaclasses specify the behaviors of classes and their instances. Not all object-oriented programming languages support the concept of metaclasses. For...
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  • earliest implementations of the concept of metaclasses, and in particular explicit (as opposed to implicit) metaclasses. In the ObjVlisp model, "each entity...
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    Proposals (PEPs). Retrieved 20 November 2024. The Cain Gang Ltd. "Python Metaclasses: Who? Why? When?" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 May 2009...
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  • themselves be classes. Similar to their role in programming languages, metaclasses in ontology languages can have properties otherwise applicable only to...
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  • pre-processing step. Other assemblers, such as MASM, also support macros. Metaclasses are provided by the following programming languages: Common Lisp Python...
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  • object-oriented languages, classes are first-class objects and are instances of metaclasses. Languages in the functional programming family often also feature first-class...
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  • object-orientation features only class- and interface-based polymorphism. Metaclasses are first class objects. Objects are references to the objects (as in...
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  • implement a design pattern or describe particular kinds of classes. Metaclasses are often used to describe frameworks. In some languages, such as Python...
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  • derivative of MIT OTcl and is based on a dynamic object system with metaclasses influenced by CLOS. Class and method definitions in XOTcl are completely...
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  • PHP. php[architect]. ISBN 9781940111056. The Cain Gang Ltd. "Python Metaclasses: Who? Why? When?" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 May 2009...
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  • another influential AI programming language. For example, it introduced metaclasses and, along with Flavors and CommonLoops, influenced the Common Lisp Object...
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  • out contradictions. Character classes are divided into four groups or "metaclasses": Warrior, Wizard, Priest, and Rogue. Each of these groups has a "base"...
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    tools, including a class library code browser/editor. Smalltalk-80 added metaclasses, to help maintain the "everything is an object" (except variables) paradigm...
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    Wolfgang Klas, Michael Schrefl (1995). "Semantic data modeling" In: Metaclasses and Their Application. Book Series Lecture Notes in Computer Science...
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    from Python's. Thoroughly object-oriented with inheritance, mixins and metaclasses Dynamic typing and duck typing Everything is an expression (even statements)...
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    July 22, 2009, at the Wayback Machine. "Semantic data modeling" In: Metaclasses and Their Application. Book Series Lecture Notes in Computer Science...
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    classes, functions, numbers and modules. Python also has support for metaclasses, an advanced tool for enhancing classes' functionality. Naturally, inheritance...
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  • (2005), ISBN 1-932394-18-4 Ira R. Forman and Scott Danforth, Putting Metaclasses to Work (1999), ISBN 0-201-43305-2 Reflection in logic, functional and...
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  • Python developer would need to. More advanced run-time constructs such as metaclasses and introspection are often harder to use in statically typed languages...
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  • Aspects Workshop (103–119). Ira R. Forman; Scott Danforth (1999). Putting Metaclasses to Work. ISBN 0-201-43305-2. Tutorial on inheritance usage in Eiffel...
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    definitions Metamodeling with arbitrarily many abstraction levels (metaclasses, meta metaclasses) ConceptBase implements O-Telos, which is a variant of the knowledge...
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    and are themselves instances of classes called metaobject classes (metaclasses for short). Readtables are a type of object which control how Common...
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  • study group (SG21) has been formed to work on a new proposal Reflection Metaclasses Executors Networking extensions, including async, basic I/O services...
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    generic-functions and methods themselves as instances of metaclasses, and allows the definition of new metaclasses and the modification of all CLOS behavior. The...
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  • Switzerland) Supports object-oriented programming with inheritance, mixins and metaclasses Dynamic typing and duck typing Literal notation for arrays and structs...
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  • or base class, as known by object-oriented programmers, for all the metaclasses in the UML infrastructure library. All other elements in the UML inherit...
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  • also supports some less common features such as multiple inheritance, metaclasses and dynamic dispatching, which had led most SOM/COM-like systems to be...
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    Dynamic inheritance Objects as methods Optional Green threads Customizable metaclasses Easy to use proxy objects Pharo is based on general concepts of Smalltalk...
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  • Logtalk's major features include support for both classes (with optional metaclasses) and prototypes, parametric objects, protocols (interfaces), categories...
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  • specified as a UML profile abstract syntax (i.e. extensions of UML 2.1 metaclasses). MODAF differs from DoDAF however, so the MODAF Meta-Model is not suitable...
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