Flavors Meta-Class System (FMCS): User Manual

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This manual describes the Flavors Meta-Class System (FMCS) for Demonic Metaprogramming in Common Lisp, an alternative to CLOS+MOP. It has been restored from the CMU AI Repository alongside Jürgen Walther’s BABYLON AI Workbench system, from which the sources of FMCS were extracted as a standalone library.

• Overview
• Basic Usage
  • Installation
  • Defining Flavor Classes
  • Defining Flavor Metaclasses
  • Defining Flavor Mixins
  • Defining Demon Methods
  • Defining Behaviours
  • Defining Traces
  • Defining Whoppers
  • Defining Frames
  • SBCL Users
• What Is Demonic Metaprogramming?
  • Modelling software by Control Flow and Data Flow
  • SSA-Form and Phi-Functions as Nondeterminstic Choice
  • Angelic and Demonic Semantics of Nondeterministic Choice
  • Favoring Demonic Semantics for Metaprogramming
  • Demonic Nondeterminism over Unified Control/Data Flow Graph
  • Demonic Semantics of Method Combination
  • Demonic Semantics of Introspection
  • Demonic Semantics of Backquote Syntax in Macroexpansion
• FMCS vs. CLOS+MOP
  • FFMCS Flavors vs. CLOS Objects
  • FMCS Flavor Classes vs. CLOS Classes
  • FMCS Flavor Metaclasses vs. MOP Metaclasses
  • FMCS Flavor Mixins vs. CLOS Multiple Inheritance
  • FMCS Demon Methods vs. CLOS Generic Functions
  • FMCS Frames
  • FMCS Behaviors
  • FMCS Traces
  • FMCS Whoppers
• Concepts
  • Flavors
  • Flavor Classes
  • Flavor Metaclasses
  • Flavor Mixins
  • Demon Methods
  • Frames
  • Behaviours
  • Traces
  • Whoppers
• API Reference
  • Flavor Classes
  • Flavor Metaclasses
  • Flavor Mixins
  • Demon Methods
  • Frames
  • Behaviors
  • Traces
  • Whoppers
  • Macros
  • Functions
  • Special Variables

Authors

• “the Phoeron” Colin J.E. Lupton
• Jürgen Walther

Including contributions by, and code based on the work of:

• Pierre Cointe
• Thomas Christaller
• Harry Bretthauer
• Eckehard Gross
• Jürgen Kopp

License

Copyright © 1984–2023, the Authors. Restrored from the CMU AI Repository and released under the MIT License. Please see the LICENSE file for details.

Restoration Note: as explicitly noted in the original source-code, FMCS was released by Jürgen Walthers under similar terms as the X Windows System, X11, and the MIT License is the closest modern, standardized FOSS equivalent.