[paper] Language Boxes. Bending the Host Language with Modular Language Changes

> Lukas Renggli, Marcus Denker, and Oscar Nierstrasz:
> Language Boxes. Bending the Host Language with Modular Language  
> Changes
>
> In: Software Language Engineering: Second International Conference,  
> SLE 2009,
> Denver, Colorado, October 5-6, 2009, LNCS 5969 p. 274—293, Springer,  
> 2009.
>
> Abstract
> ======
> As domain-specific modeling begins to attract widespread acceptance,
> pressure is increasing for the development of new domain-specific  
> languages.
> Unfortunately these DSLs typically conflict with the grammar of the  
> host language,
> making it difficult to compose hybrid code except at the level of  
> strings; few
> mechanisms (if any) exist to control the scope of usage of multiple  
> DSLs; and,
> most seriously, existing host language tools are typically unaware  
> of the DSL
> extensions, thus hampering the development process. Language boxes  
> address
> these issues by offering a simple, modular mechanism to encapsulate
> (i) compositional changes to the host language, (ii) transformations  
> to address
> various concerns such as compilation and highlighting, and (iii)  
> scoping rules
> to control visibility of language extensions. We describe the design  
> and
> implementation of language boxes, and show with the help of several
> examples how modular extensions can be introduced to a host language
> and environment.
>
> http://scg.unibe.ch/archive/papers/Reng09cLanguageBoxes.pdf
>
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> Marcus Denker  -- http://www.marcusdenker.de
> INRIA Lille -- Nord Europe. Team RMoD.
>
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