Class references, or using ClassInfo to instantiate classes?

[Thomas Kuehne]

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Vladimir Panteleev schrieb am 2007-02-02:
> 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...

The problem is that oplink (the linker DMD uses on Windows) doesn't
include the symtab information in the final binary. This isn't a
limitation of the binary format but of the tools used.

Thomas


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