From the Department of Insane Ideas: D on the JVM

[Thomas Kuehne]

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Alexander Panek schrieb am 2006-12-13:
> Well, another thing would be reflection. Afaik, runtime reflection gets 
> much easier when run in a VM, thus D could have reflection libraries 
> just like Java - once being able to be run in a VM, that is.

There is no need for VMs to do runtime reflection in D. 
Granted, Flectioned[1] currently only allows instanciating classes and
structs and isn't yet a replacement for java.lang.reflect.*. But it is
never the less interesting to see how the seperation between
VM and non-VM capabilities isn't as clear as many would think.

Thomas

[1] http://svn.dsource.org/projects/flectioned/downloads/flectioned.zip

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