Reflection

[Sean Kelly]

Bruno Medeiros wrote:
> Bruno Medeiros wrote:
>>
>> Ok, this shows the usefulness of such feature, however there are some 
>> problems/limitations. It only works with primitive types (there is no 
>> isClass method of TypeInfo). For this feature to reach the full 
>> potential, then the TypeInfo class would have to be extended with info 
>> about the type's type, (i.e., the metatype, like struct, class, 
>> function, primitive, etc.), so that one could use reflection with 
>> non-primitive types, especially classes and arrays.
>>
> Strike that, we already have it. Upon further investigation I came to 
> object.d where there are children classes of TypeInfo for each of the 
> metatypes. Nice! :D

And there are more in std/typeinfo.  The problem is that, as far as I 
know, the names of these classes are not standardized, nor is the output 
returned by the name method, so they're of limited direct use.  For Ares 
I actually moved std/typeinfo into the runtime and don't expect the 
classes to be used directly, but rather for the user to do typeid(int) 
or whatever to return a reference to the appropriate TypeInfo object.


Sean