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[Walter Bright]

J Duncan wrote:
> 
> 
> Walter Bright wrote:
>> Bill Baxter wrote:
>>>
>>> But something more is needed for Dynamic Qt-like S&S.  Some sort of 
>>> compile-time introspection seems a minimal requirement.  I think some 
>>> way to tag particular method like Qt's "slot:" keyword will also be 
>>> necessary to make it usable.  Anyway you need some way to say "do 
>>> something with this method" and do it at the point of declaration 
>>> rather than in the constructor or elsewhere.
>>
>>
>> I don't understand. Exactly what needs to be done at compile time that 
>> can't be done with the mixin method?
> 
> reflection data to allow dynamic method connection at runtime by 
> identifier.....

That's not compile time <g>. The only way I can see a need for this at 
runtime is if the classes are coming from a DLL that the compiler 
doesn't know about. The compiler does know about everything that is 
statically linked to it.