Re: Introspection/Reflection

I've written (as I shouldn't have) a long reply to the recent thread
on Reflection that had a few flames about my page
                http://www.tunes.org/Review/Reflection.html


Since the message is too long and mostly off-topic, I posted it
directly to review@tunes.org and thread participants, extracting the
on-topic material in this post. I hope it was the Right Thing(tm) to
do. The full message can be found on the web at
                http://lists.tunes.org/list/review/9911/msg00002.html


Short summary: indeed the page had many shortcomings; I've just
revamped it, and hope it's better; constructive criticism
welcome. Additional chatter. A few ramblings on what a reflective
system would be like.


My message includes on topic question: are there known papers on
"reversible compilation", a technique whereby code can be efficiently
decompiled, allowing for reification of computation state that can be
saved/migrated/analyzed/etc.


> [I think I'll let you guys slug it out in private mail now. -John]


For those interested in the topic, may I suggest the various
mailing-lists hosted at tunes.org as a suitable place to discuss
reflection? Criticism of the page and suggestion of new material is
welcome on review@, while discussion of reflective system designs can
be done in tunes@, and general philosophical ramblings are is fit for
cybernethics@.


A list of mailing-lists and web interface to their archives is at
http://lists.tunes.org/cgi-bin/wilma
Please note that not all mailing-lists archived there depend from the TUNES
project; for instance, we have web archives of the gclist and virtmach
mailing-lists that spawned off comp.compilers.


I hope this message puts a useful end to this thread here.
Best regards,


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