Reflection in Oberon

What is Reflection?

A programming system is reflective if programs can obtain run-time information about themselved or about other programs. Information includes the names and values of variables, the structure of types, the current contents of the activation stack, etc. This information can be used for example to implement debugging services, embedded command languages, general print routines, or exception handling mechanisms. We implemented a set of Oberon modules which allow programs to use reflection.

Publications

• Hanspeter Mössenböck, Christoph Steindl: The Oberon-2 Reflection Model and its Applications.
  Reflection'99, St. Malo, France, July 19-21, 1999.



• Christoph Steindl, Hanspeter Mössenböck: Metaprogramming Facilities in Oberon for Windows and Power Macintosh.
  Technical Report 8, July 1996.



• Markus Hof, Hanspeter Mössenböck, Peter Pirkelbauer: Zero-Overhead Exception Handling Using Metaprogramming.
  SOFSEM'97, Milovy, Czech Republic, November 1997.



• Christoph Steindl: Reflection in Oberon.
  JMLC'97, Hagenberg, Austria, March 1997.