I hear "Let's use reflection!" as "My language's tools for code reuse are hard to use and ineffective in practice, so I'm going to put annotations everywhere an

I hear "Let's use reflection!" as "My language's tools for code reuse are hard to use and ineffective in practice, so I'm going to put annotations everywhere and use reflection instead! It'll be ten times harder to understand the code than it would have been with a little metaprogramming!" But then, my opinion may be unduly influenced by Java vs Ruby.