On 4/16/2012 11:42 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
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.
Serialization does NOT need to deal with all types, only the types that are to
be serialized.
