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SLE 2017
Sun 22 - Fri 27 October 2017 Vancouver, Canada
co-located with SPLASH 2017
Mon 23 Oct 2017 15:30 - 15:55 at Regency B - DSLs Chair(s): Jurgen Vinju

Extensible languages enable the convenient construction of many kinds of domain-specific languages (DSLs) by mapping the domain-specific surface syntax into the host language’s core forms in a layered and composable way. The host language’s debugger, however, reports evaluation and data details in ways that reflect the host language, instead of the DSL in its own terms, and closing the gap may require more than correlating host evaluation steps to the original DSL source. In this paper, we describe an approach to DSL construction with macros that pairs the mapping of DSL terms to host terms with a mapping to convert primitive events back to domain-specific concepts. Domain-specific events are then suitable for presenting to a user or wiring into a domain-specific visualization. We present a core model of evaluation and events, and we present a language design—analogous to pattern-based notations for macros, but in the other direction—for describing how events in a DSL’s expansion are mapped to events at the DSL’s level.

Mon 23 Oct

Displayed time zone: Tijuana, Baja California change

15:30 - 17:00
DSLsSLE at Regency B
Chair(s): Jurgen Vinju Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica / Technische Universiteit Eindhoven
15:30
25m
Talk
Debugging with Domain-Specific Events via MacrosDistinguished PaperArtifact Evaluation
SLE
Xiangqi Li University of Utah, Matthew Flatt University of Utah
DOI
15:55
25m
Talk
A Chrestomathy of DSL implementations
SLE
Simon Schauss University of Koblenz-Landau, Ralf Laemmel University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany, Johannes Härtel University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany, Marcel Heinz University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany, Kevin Klein University of Koblenz-Landau, Lukas Härtel University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany, Thorsten Berger Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden / University of Gothenburg, Sweden
DOI
16:20
25m
Talk
A Requirements Engineering Approach for Usability-Driven DSL DevelopmentArtifact Evaluation
SLE
Ankica Barisic NOVA-LINCS - Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Dominique Blouin LTCI Lab, Telecom ParisTech, Université Paris-Saclay, Vasco Amaral NOVA-LINCS, FCT/UNL, Miguel Goulao NOVA-LINCS, FCT/UNL
DOI
16:45
25m
Talk
Better Call the Crowd. Using Crowdsourcing to Shape the Notation of Domain-Specific Languages
SLE
Marco Brambilla Politecnico di Milano, Jordi Cabot ICREA - UOC, Javier Luis Cánovas Izquierdo IN3 - UOC, Andrea Mauri Politecnico di Milano, Italy
DOI