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What do they aim for? Runtime reflection? That's something that's indeed not very important. At least as long as you've got some form of "compile time reflectio
by still_grokking 4y ago
What do they aim for? Runtime reflection? That's something that's indeed not very important. At least as long as you've got some form of "compile time reflection". But OK, C++ does not have either. (You could build something for sure, templates are Turing complete, but I'm not sure I would even like to see the result; could be very scary…)
- maccard 4y ago> That's something that's indeed not very important To you. Meanwhile many of us who do need it are stuck with buggy half implemented code generation tools.
- still_grokking 4y agoI keep hearing the Java people saying the same. But there is (almost) no use for runtime reflection when you have proper compile time features. Of course this is something one can only find out when using a language with those features. But now I'm curious: What do you concretely need (runtime) reflection for? Maybe it's indeed one of the very rare cases where one would really need runtime reflection.