Reflection Alternative

Sean Kelly sean at f4.ca
Fri Sep 15 09:07:50 PDT 2006


Kent Boogaart wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> D doesn't support reflection does it? I can't, for example, create an 
> instance of a type based on its name?

Not currently, though DDL sounds like it might make this possible.

> I'm just trying to think how I would read a file containing a map and create 
> instances of types based on what is in that file. I'd basically have to 
> correlate codes with types and hard-code the creation of those types, yes?

Pretty much as in C++, yes.


Sean



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