First class Variables in Pharo

First Name: Marcus
Last Name: Denker
Type: Talk

Abstract:
In this talk I will present the first class variables in Pharo:
With Slots, Class, and Global variables, we now model variables
as objects. These mete-objects provide a new reflective API for
variables and in addition, and allow the programmer to introduce 
new kinds of variables.

This talk will present the ideas behind and show how to use first class 
variables by presenting examples. It will present how variable meta
objects simplify reflecting on variables in combination with Reflectivity.


Bio:
Marcus Denker is a permanent researcher at INRIA Lille - Nord Europe. Before,
he was a postdoc at the PLEIAD lab/DCC University of Chile and the Software 
Composition Group, University of Bern. His research focuses on reflection 
and meta-programming for dynamic languages. He is an active participant 
in the Squeak and Pharo open source communities for many years and the 
co-founder of 2Denker/Cologne/Germany. Marcus received a PhD in Computer 
Science from the University of Bern/Switzerland in 2008 and a Dipl.-Inform. 
(MSc) from the University of Karlsruhe/Germany in 2004.


http://www.slideshare.net/esug/first-class-variables-in-pharo
Video 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEWKV9eWAGY
Video 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWo1V_C0cu8