Interactive disambiguation of meta programs with concrete object syntax

In meta-programming with concrete object syntax, meta programs can be written using the concrete syntax of manipulated programs. Quotations of concrete syntax fragments and anti-quotations for meta-level expressions and variables are used to manipulate the abstract representation of programs. These small, isolated fragments are often ambiguous...

Spoofax: An Extensible, Interactive Development Environment for Program Transformation with Stratego/XT

Preprint accepted for publication in: SeventhWorkshop on Language Descriptions, Tools, and Applications (LDTA’07), pages 47–50, Braga, Portugal, March 2007.

Fusing a Transformation Language with an Open Compiler

Program transformation systems provide powerful analysis and transformation frameworks as well as concise languages for language processing, but instantiating them for every subject language is an arduous task, most often resulting in halfcompleted frontends. Compilers provide mature frontends with robust parsers and type checkers, but solving...