Explicit Handwritten Code

Kind: approach

Layer: Declarative Core

Record: lexicon:explicit-handwritten-code

Canonical: Lexicon

Writing code out by hand explicitly rather than generating it, favoring directness and debuggability over reuse.

Listed in Lexicon terms, after Boilerplate Elimination and before Reflection/AST/Code Generation.

Category

• Metaprogramming / Language-Oriented Architecture

In tension with

• Metaprogramming
• Metaprogramming / Explicit Handwritten Code

Linked from

• Metaprogramming / Language-Oriented Architecture
• The resolutions