Abstract

We propose a reflective model to express and to automatically manage dependencies between objects. This model describes reflective facilities which enable the changing of language semantics. Although the importance of inter-object dependencies is well accepted, there is only limited object-oriented language support for their specification and implementation. In response to this lack of expressiveness of object models, the flo language integrates dependency management into the object oriented paradigm. Dependencies are described as first class objects and flo automatically maintains the consistency of the dependency graph.

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