https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_introspection https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_introspection > Introspection should not be confused with reflection, which

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_introspection https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_introspection > Introspection should not be confused with reflection, which goes a step further and is the ability for a program to manipulate the values, meta-data, properties and/or functions of an object at runtime.