| Title |
Refactoring of heterogeneous meta-program into k-stage meta-program / |
| Another Title |
Pakopinė heterogeninė metaprograma k pakopų metaprogramoje. |
| Authors |
Štuikys, Vytautas ; Bespalova, Kristina ; Burbaitė, Renata |
| DOI |
10.5755/j01.itc.43.1.3715 |
| Full Text |
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| Is Part of |
Informacinės technologijos ir valdymas = Information technology and control.. Kaunas : KTU. 2014, t. 43, Nr. 1, p. 14-27.. ISSN 1392-124X. eISSN 2335-884X |
| Keywords [eng] |
refactoring ; meta-program ; meta-parameter ; meta-programming ; multi-stage heterogeneous meta-program |
| Abstract [eng] |
The paper presents: (1) a graph-based theoretical background to refactoring a correct heterogeneous meta-program into its k-stage representation; (2) the refactoring method; (3) refactoring experiments with tasks taken from different domains, including real world tasks, such as meta-programs to teach Computer Science (CS) topics using educational robots. Refactoring meta-programs by staging enables to flexibly adapt them to the different context of use. To do that (semi-)automatically, we use the contextual information as a priority relation (e.g. highest, lowest, etc.) introduced within the meta-program specification. We implement the refactoring method using the so-called activating/de-activating label (index) to change the role of meta-language constructs at different stages. The contribution of the paper is: (1) applying the known (in programming) staging concept to heterogeneous meta-programming; (2) a theoretical background, properties and the method to solve tasks of this kind of refactoring. |
| Published |
Kaunas : KTU |
| Type |
Journal article |
| Language |
English |
| Publication date |
2014 |
| CC license |
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