Oh, I see... I think I was thinking about reflection in an entirely different way. When I think Reflection I think mostly static and generative reflection -- s

Oh, I see... I think I was thinking about reflection in an entirely different way. When I think Reflection I think mostly static and generative reflection -- so you can introspect on data structures, derive [whatever] from that, generate code, whatever... but you still cannot do [whatever] to the thing you reflected on. (Other than whatever the language says you can do as a public consumer of that API/structure) So you can, say, add serialization code, generate property test instances, whatever. What you cannot do is do anything to "invade" the thing being reflected on and change its meaning.