Fri, 09 Oct 2009 20:20:02 -0400, Michel Fortin thusly wrote: > But an interesting thing I realized in the last few months is this: all > you can do with a template you can also do at runtime provided > sufficient runtime reflection capabilities. Even creating types!
This is a well known fact.. > And from that point of view, you can see templates as an compiled, > optimized version of runtime reflection and type creation capabilities. Runtime reflection can be really expensive computationally, but it becomes useful when you need mobile code.