Vancouver Lisp Users Group meeting for June - MOP Retrospective
Wednesday, June 21, 2006
A terrific meeting topic and speaker for June:
Topic: MOP Retrospective
Presenter: Gregor Kiczales
Date: Wednesday, June 28, 2006
Time: 7pm - 10pm (or whenever)
Venue:
Think!, 4512 West 10th Ave., Vancouver (see
map)
Summary: Wikipedia
defines "Metaobject Protocol" as
"A metaobject protocol (MOP) is an interpreter of the semantics of a program that is open and extensible. Therefore, a MOP determines what a program means and what its behavior is, and it is extensible in that a programmer (or meta-programmer) can alter the program's behavior by extending pieces of the MOP. The MOP exposes some or all internal structure of the interpreter to the programmer. The MOP may manifest as a set of classes and methods that allow a program to inspect the state of the supporting system and alter its behaviour. MOPs are implemented as object-oriented programs where all objects are metaobjects."The most widely-known MOP (although not the only one) is the one defined for CLOS by Gregor Kiczales and documented in his excellent book The Art of the Metaobject Protocol (portions of which are available online). The Vancouver Lisp Users Group (aka lispvan) will receive a unique insight into the MOP at this month's meeting. Gregor Kiczales, will attend the meeting and there will be a discussion and Q&A session on the MOP.
Come to the meeting and find out some of the original design decisions that went into creating the MOP, what Gregor thinks was done right, what he thinks could have been done differently, and anything else you ever wanted to know about the MOP! If you are unable to attend, please feel free to send me any questions that you might have regarding the MOP and I will ask Gregor your questions at the meeting. I will attempt to either record or transcribe the Q&A session.
