Newbie initial comments on D language - RTTI and run-time reflection
Jarrett Billingsley
kb3ctd2 at yahoo.com
Tue Jan 29 20:35:46 PST 2008
"Edward Diener" <eddielee_no_spam_here at tropicsoft.com> wrote in message
news:fnoq19$fim$1 at digitalmars.com...
> Then it has knowledge the internal structure of a module via some
> facility. Is this facility based on some library which gives this
> knowledge ? Is the internal module structure rich enough to allow all of
> the necessary information about types and their sub-components ?
I think it basically just uses debug symbols (on Windows anyway, on Linux I
think there are more robust symbol tables), which encode the fully-qualified
name of symbols to find symbols in modules. That is, it's basically just
doing string processing on symbol names.
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