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A Practical Unification of Multi-stage Programming and Macros

Stucki, Nicolas
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Biboudis, Aggelos
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Odersky, Martin
2018
Proceedings of the 17th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Generative Programming: Concepts and Experiences
17th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Generative Programming: Concepts and Experiences

Program generation is indispensable. We propose a novel unification of two existing metaprogramming techniques: multi-stage programming and hygienic generative macros. The former supports runtime code generation and execution in a type-safe manner while the latter offers compile-time code generation. In this work we draw upon a long line of research on metaprogramming, starting with Lisp, MetaML and MetaOCaml. We provide direct support for quotes, splices and top-level splices, all regulated uniformly by a level-counting Phase Consistency Principle. Our design enables the construction and combination of code values for both expressions and types. Moreover, code generation can happen either at runtime à la MetaML or at compile time, in a macro fashion, à la MacroML. We provide an implementation of our design in Scala and we present two case studies. The first implements the Hidden Markov Model, Shonan Challenge for HPC. The second implements the staged streaming library Strymonas.

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