Metaprogramming / Explicit Handwritten Code

Kind: tension

Record: tension:explicit-handwritten-code-metaprogramming

Canonical: Schema

"metaprogramming" (declarative-core layer) is traded against "Explicit Handwritten Code" (declarative-core layer) — a principle cannot be scope-separated from a quality, metric, or cost it competes with; resolve by measuring "Explicit Handwritten Code" and choosing an explicit operating point.

Listed in Tensions, after Metaprogramming / Static Analysis and before Reflection / Performance/Safety.

In tension with

• Metaprogramming
• Explicit Handwritten Code

Mechanism

• irreducible-tradeoff

Linked from

• Metaprogramming / Language-Oriented Architecture
• Resolution mechanisms