sle2008/paper06

SLE 2008 paper:
Generating Rewritable Abstract Syntax Trees: A Foundation for the Rapid Development of Source Code Transformation Tools

Jeffrey Overbey, Ralph E. Johnson

• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-00434-6_8
• T4B: Horizontal Transformation
  • It provides foundations for source-to-source transformation by generating ASTs that support rewriting.
• T4A: Workbenches
  • The contribution is a transformation-tool construction technique/infrastructure aimed at rapid tool development.
• T1E: Reuse
  • Automatically generating rewritable AST infrastructures promotes reuse across multiple transformation tools and languages.

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