I am going to write a groovy script to generate a buttload of constants in a javascript file. ;)
Maybe cross-language metaprogramming? meta-language meta-programming?
To be clear, I am asking what category this falls under
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A:
It's more like code generation or generative programming, which happens to be a subset of metaprogramming. So I guess you could call it "metaprogramming", but it is a little bit of a stretch. Most people refer to this kind of programming as simply "code generation".
What most people consider metaprogramming would be a program that modifies itself (or its code) during runtime.
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Vivin Paliath
2010-09-08 21:01:42
ahh yeah, you are right. First time I did something like this, kind of excited about it...tee hee
hvgotcodes
2010-09-08 21:49:06
+1, but isn't reflection only looking back (reflecting) on the code but not modifiying it?
mathepic
2010-09-08 21:50:53
@mathepic Oops you are right. Will fix.
Vivin Paliath
2010-09-08 21:59:27