Paper Requirement for Ryan Culpepper

1. Paper: Ryan Culpepper, Scott Owens, and Matthew Flatt, "Syntactic Abstraction in Component Interfaces", GPCE 2005.
2. Description: This paper shows how to enhance a component system with syntactic abstractions (macros) while preserving important properties such as separate compilation of components. The paper builds on Flatt's component system for PLT Scheme (called units) and the widely-used syntax-case hygienic macro system. The paper shows examples of syntactic abstraction with components, describes an extension of the hygiene property and associated implementation difficulties, and discusses our implementation strategy. Ryan wrote the initial implementation prototype, and Scott Owens has recently extended the implementation into a more full-featured system. An earlier version of the paper had been rejected at ESOP 2005. After a complete rewrite, the current version was accepted at GPCE 2005.
   
3. Acceptance rate: For GPCE 2005, 29% of papers were accepted.
4. Student's contribution to paper: Ryan designed and implemented the prototype system the paper was based on. He wrote a significant portion of the current version of the paper, with Scott contributing some sections and Matthew and Matthias offering guidance and editing suggestions.
5. URL for paper: http://www.ccs.neu.edu/scheme/pubs/gpce-cof.pdf
6. Why should this paper be accepted as satisfying the paper requirement? It was accepted to GPCE.