Metaprogramming: notes and reference material

Unfortunately most of my lecture notes are still in handwritten form, but here is a
list of topics and piccies of the notes :-)

Metaprogramming: reference material

General references, introductions, and debates

• Wikipedia: metaprogramming and template metaprogramming
• IBM developerWorks
• F. Rideau: article on metaprogramming theory and challenges
• PEG: parsing expression grammars

  Language-focused material

  C

• Wikipedia: the C pre-processor
• JHnet: C preprocessor magic
• P.Fultz: C preprocessor tricks
• my quickref to C preprocessing
• A lex tokenizing grammar for C
• A yacc parsing grammar for C
• A tokenizer for the SIMP language

  C++

• C++ template metaprogramming
• CodeProject: intro to template metaprogramming in C++
• A. Hitti: Template metaprogramming in C++
• Variadic templates in C++
• C++ template metaprogramming examples (based on the CodeProject notes above):
  basic computation, computation with functions, loops/recursion, if/else/switch, and
  parameterized bodies for loops/recursion/if/else/switch, typesafe variadic functions processing strings at compile time
• Exploration of C++ from CSCI 330

  lisp

• Ian Bicking: the challenge of metaprogramming (lisp-focused)
• Lisp meta-programming for C++ devs
• Slideshow: metaprogramming and reflection in common lisp
• My code samples from the 330 lisp pages :
  • basic functions
  • eval and funcall
  • lambda functions and closures
  • macros
  • dynamically analyzing function composition
  • dynamically altering functions
  • a self-modifying program to display the lyrics to the 12 days of Christmas
  • A macro suite for moddable functions,
      - a short test script and resulting output
      - an interactive function editor/tester build from the macro suite

  ruby

• Github: ruby metaprogramming resources
• Course material: metaprogramming in ruby
• Tutorials point: ruby tutorial
• Parslet: a ruby parsing tool
• Banister: extracting the source code for a ruby method
• My Ruby quicknotes
  ruby scripts to tokenizer, syntax check, and parse a new language (IttyBitty)
  ruby code for higher order/dynamic coding
    - Building storable/passable functions using lambda
    - Dynamically adding user-defined (and callable) methods to modules using eval
    - Allowing customized runs of methods by passing user defined blocks and running with yields
    - A mini interpretter to record and run ruby code
    - Allowing customized runs of methods by passing user defined blocks and running with Proc.new.call
    - Checking if something has been defined at run time defined? and respond_to?
    - Defining class fields and methods on the fly, tracking content with hash functions: UserCode class

  python

• D. Beazley: Python 3 metaprogramming
• Python metaprogramming slideshow

  java

• A. Remani: Java metaprogramming slideshow

  javascript

• lucasfcosta 4 part series on metaprogramming in javascript
  part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4

  Article collection

• Lecture material from International Summer School on Metaprogramming

  Tools

• StringTemplate: java code generator
• Compiler tools: lex (builds tokenizing programs) and yacc (builds parsing programs)
• Short look at the old NSIS installer-creation system

  Q & A posts

• stack overflow: metaprogramming resources
• stack overflow: real world applications
• stack overflow: metaprogramming uses