Chapter 16
Custom Attributes
Every system worth its salt needs extensibility. The languages that describe an extensible system and their compilers need extensibility as well; otherwise, they are describing not the system but rather its glorious past.
A system and the associated languages can be extended in three ways. The first way is to tinker with the system itself, changing its inner structure and changing the languages accordingly. This approach is good as long as the system has a negligible number of users, because each new version of the system (and hence the languages) is basically different from the previous version. This approach is ...
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