Class references, or using ClassInfo to instantiate classes?

Vladimir Panteleev thecybershadow at gmail.com
Thu Feb 1 17:57:48 PST 2007


On Thu, 01 Feb 2007 17:21:14 +0200, Jarrett Billingsley <kb3ctd2 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> This is possible with reflection.  Check out FlectioneD; it has (at least a
> limited form) of instantiating classes by a string name.  In fact, classes
> are represented by (gasp) the Class type.

 From what I understood, FlectioneD isn't really portable, and thus doesn't really compare to a language feature. Also, it requires debug symbols to be compiled in the executable, while this can be implemented as a fairly simple language construct...

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