Lexicon

Self-Describing Systems

Kind: quality-attribute

Layer: Declarative Core

Record: lexicon:self-describing-systems

Canonical: Lexicon

The degree to which a system carries enough metadata to describe its own structure and capabilities at runtime.

Listed in Lexicon terms, after Diagnostics and before Build Complexity.

Category

  • Metaprogramming / Language-Oriented Architecture

Reinforced by

  • Introspection

Linked from

  • Metaprogramming / Language-Oriented Architecture