Meta-programming is the writing of computer programs with the ability to treat programs as their data. It means that a program could be designed to read, generate, analyze and/or transform other programs, and even modify itself while running.

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Automatic flowchart generator

I wanted to see graphically what my programme was doing so I wrote this automatic flowchart generator: ...
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Building a chain of responsibility in Ruby to apply transformators on an object

I try to make a middleware stack system in the rack way (but not for HTTP request). Here is the main class: ...
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Meta-class to allow inspection of all __slots__of a class

If classes provide __slots__ and at the same time inherit from another class also providing __slots__, there is no ...
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Synchronous and asynchronous motor movement

I am working on an API that is mostly intended to be used interactively/little scripts. There are some classes with methods that could act slightly differently depending on the intention of the user, ...
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Memoization of Fibonacci using generic Int => Int helper

I'm trying to understand memoization using Scala. I took the Fibonacci sequence as an example because of the high cost of recursively computing numbers in the sequence without memoization. ...
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Find arity of a rebol function

I needed a way to find the number of arguments a function or operation in Rebol accepts (the functions arity). I could not find any direct support for this in the language, so I made my own ...
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Making a default value a property

I recently asked a question on StackOverflow, looking for a way to more easily turn a class attribute into a @property, but only if no other value has been provided ...
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Creating 2D vectors

I've made a little mechanism for creating 2-D vectors in Lua. Vectors have two components i and j, and support addition, dot ...
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Extracting dynamic behaviors of state machines to modules

This is my initial class. (I am not trying to reinvent state-flows again, just practicing) As you can see straight forward, it dynamically generates methods like .recommend,.recommend!, ...
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Enums for measurement units, with possible circular dependency

I have some enums that define measurement information, such as volume, mass, distance etc... They are defined as such: ...
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Efficient compile-time directed graph

During my research in Rigid Body Dynamics, (where Contact Graphs are used to solve the contact problem) I came across the question if it is possible to define at compile time a directed graph (class) ...
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Dictionary with restricted keys

I'm currently building some software that works with systemd unit files, and I've been trying to improve how we construct the unit files. This is all running in Python 3.4 This first block is the ...
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Failing fast by raising an exception with a custom message

This is a script that utilizes lazy exception throwing. What I do is decorate a function that might throw an exception to throw an exception with a formatted string. ...
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Wait, is that variable ever assigned?

One of the inspections we wanted to implement in Rubberduck for the next release, is one that finds all unassigned variables in a VBA project. Implementing this inspection has been ...complicated ...
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Rubberduck's “Extract Method” refactoring implementation

With the ANTLR-powered parser, I was able to reimplement all code inspections from the last release build, and the rest of the inspections on the road map are now implementable. Code inspections ...
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Java MVC model for large scale GUI using annotations

I'm trying to make a good MVC model using annotations, which I will use it in a large scale GUI project. I want to respect the maximum of rules and guidelines, and be able to decorrelate every parts ...
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Python decorator for optional arguments decorator

I want my Python decorators to have optional arguments and not be called when not necessary. The accepted answer in here doesn't accept named arguments, and I don't want to add boilerplate code ...
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Universal memoization decorator

I've just written a simple caching / memoization python decorator. It's purpose is to cache what the function returns for all the arguments combinations it's been ever invoked with. So, if, say, we ...
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Wrapping the classList API to add/remove array of classes

I've written a function that wraps the classList API, allowing you to pass an array of classes to add/remove, or the variable arguments already supported by ...
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Is monkeypatching __builtin__ in tests like this an absurdly complicated practice?

My hunch: Probably. I'm testing a little magic behaviour of my script that automatically reads from ~/.ghtoken to do automagic authentication on GitHub API ...
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Generating and calling code on the fly

Delegate This class module defines what I'm calling, in this context, a Delegate - here a function that can take a number of parameters, evaluate a result, and ...
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Ugly workaround to get the vbext_ProcKind of a procedure is breaking encapsulation

This is a follow up to Extending the VBAExtensibility Library. It turns out that code had a really nasty bug. Anytime vbeProcedure.StartLine got called, I was ...
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Automagic testing framework for VBA

Building on @RubberDuck's recommendations, I now have something I find... beautiful. I'm sure there's a couple of things left to polish - this site is about making great code out of good any code, ...
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Multiple dispatch decorator classes in Python

This is based on my first review and the suggested points in "Multiple dispatch decorator in Python": ...
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General way to add persistence to a class in Python

The idea here is to write a function that gives you back a persistent version of a class that you supply. So you if you run ...
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Memcache Keys Management Class

I have written below class to manage Memcache keys. My Memcache keys structure are like: ...
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VB6/VBA Declaration (Dim) Syntax Parser

As part of a project I'm working on, I've implemented a class that encapsulates the syntax for a vb6/vba Dim statement. Given a line of code, the ...
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Extending the VBA Extensibility Library

The Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications Extensibility library let's us meta-program VBA, but the way it handles (or rather, doesn't handle) getting to the actual subs and functions is clunky at ...
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Math Equation Solver

I made this math script, where you enter an equation and it solves it for you. I was wondering what you thought of the code, and what I could have done better or what doesn't follow Ruby best ...
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Zombie Smack Down game

So about a year and a half ago, me and my friend started on a game called Zombie Smack Down. It's a text based game written in Ruby. But we were both really new to Ruby when most of it was written. I ...
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Ruby 1.9 interner

I'm currently implementing an interner in the style of Guava's Interner, where: an intern pool is maintained for an immutable class whenever a new instance of ...
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Streamlining repetitive class definitions in python with a class_factory() function

I forked this repo to be more concise. The code is here. I'll paste it below since that seems to be the style. I removed the class definitions at the bottom that I didn't change -- the edit I'm ...
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define_method vs method_missing and CodeClimate scores

This may be a better fit for another board, but here goes: I've made a very simple gem that acts as a days-of-the-week bitmask. To be hip, I registered it on CodeClimate, where it's currently scoring ...
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Perl wrapper library (written using Moose) for a REST API

I wrote a wrapper library for a REST API (https://semantics3.com) in Perl using the Moose library. I would like to gather some feedback on it (mainly on the OOP part since I am new to moose), before ...