On 2012-04-16 18:53, Walter Bright wrote:
On 4/16/2012 9:40 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
Regardless of how the runtime reflection is generated, by a library or
the
compiler, it needs to be available to all types.
Why?
(I can see the point for a dynamic language, but not a static one.)
The standard example that comes back is serialization. That can be done
without support for runtime reflection but not as good as with the
support. As far as I know it's impossible to serialize through a base
class reference without registering the subtype with the serializer, if
runtime reflection isn't available.
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/Jacob Carlborg
