A quotation from Reddit

[Paulo Pinto]

Why?

There are many static languages that support reflection, plugin systems
and meta-objects.

Actually one of my disapointments with D was that after reading the TDPL
I did not found any example of such features in D.

--
Paulo

"so" <so at so.do> wrote in message news:op.vkw5qztw7dtt59 at so-pc...
> These features are must have for a modern language, falling back to a 
> dynamic language for scripting is understandable but reflection?
> One another thing is the environment you like to work with and this is his 
> real point IMHO. He likes to work in a dynamic typed environment like 
> Python, and when it is not enough he switches to another language. Those 
> who like to work in a static language had/have no choice, but D.
>
> On Thu, 21 Oct 2010 05:32:06 +0300, bearophile <bearophileHUGS at lycos.com> 
> wrote:
>
>> A quotation from a little comment I've found on Reddit:
>>
>> http://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/dtnwe/how_often_is_the_speed_of_python_considered_when/c12uk3g
>>
>>> Finally, by the time you have implemented reflection, introspection, a 
>>> decent plugin system and meta objects in your C++ application you've 
>>> inevitably Greenspunned yourself a dynamic language anyway. Why bother, 
>>> when you can take Python off the shelf?<
>>
>> I presume in large C++ programs those features are useful. A way to 
>> solve this problem is to give those features to D. An alternative 
>> solution is to make D very easy to interoperate with a dynamic language 
>> as Python/Lua/Ruby. A third way is intermediate, this means adding more 
>> static introspection to D, and allowing for an easy interfacing between 
>> D and a dynamic language. This third way may be the best.
>>
>> Bye,
>> bearophile
>
>
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