A Declarative Meta-Programming Approach to Framework Documentation
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چکیده
The documentation of software artifacts in general, and object-oriented frameworks in particular, has always been problematic. In this paper, we advocate the use of a declarative meta-programming environment to document software artifacts. In particular, we show how a significant and important part of the design of a framework can be adequately and concisely documented in such an environment, and how this allows us to use this documentation in an active way.
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