Open C++

Open C++ is a variant of C++ which provides a very simple MOP (MetaObject Protocol) in which the programmer can alter the implementation of method calls to obtain new language functionnalities suitable for the programmer's applications.

The objects controlled by metaobjects are called reflective objects. The methods of a reflective object are divided into two groups, depending on whether the invocation of the method is controlled by its metaobject. The methods controlled by the metaobject are called reflect methods.

• FTP Server: ftp://utsun.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/lang/openC++/
• Bibliography:
  • S. Chiba. Open C++ Programmer's Guide. Technical Report 93-3, Dept. of Information Science, University of Tokyo, 1993.
  • S. Chiba and T. Masuda. Designing an Extensible Distributed Language with a Meta-Level Architecture. In O.Lehrmann Madsen, editor, Proceedings of the ECOOP'92, volume 615 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 482--501, Utrecht, the Netherlands, July 1992. European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Springer-Verlag.

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