Newbie initial comments on D language - RTTI and run-time reflection

[Christian Kamm]

Walter Bright Wrote:
> I agree with the importance of RTR (runtime reflection).
> 
> But as Andrei and others pointed out to me, with good compile time 
> reflection D can achieve runtime reflection with the addition of a 
> simple call to a library.

Just take a look at Jascha Wetzel's ClassInfoEx to see what's possible in D 2 today:

http://www.mainia.de/classinfoex.d

Adding his mixin to a class definition exposes the __traits compile time information at runtime. I expect you could also add the class name to a global registry to get at the information by name instead of classinfo.

Christian Kamm