Fully dynamic d by opDotExp overloading

Christopher Wright dhasenan at gmail.com
Mon Apr 20 17:08:36 PDT 2009


Michel Fortin wrote:
> On 2009-04-20 07:25:43 -0400, Christopher Wright <dhasenan at gmail.com> said:
> 
>> BCS wrote:
>>> Hello Christopher,
>>>
>>>> The utility is when you are looking for methods to invoke via runtime
>>>> reflection, you can determine that a given function is one of these
>>>> runtime opDotExp equivalents.
>>>
>>> So it is being argued that there should be a standard way to do a run 
>>> time function invocation system? I'll buy that.
>>>
>>>> I don't know how useful this is, in point of fact. Unless there's a
>>>> standard system in D for integrating with scripting languages, anyway.
>>>
>>> Maybe there should be.
>>
>> But there isn't, so this is YAGNI. And if there were, then this 
>> particular issue would immediately be solved.
> 
> The thing is that with compile-time reflection you can already build 
> your own runtime-reflection system (with some limitations).

You're telling me?
http://felt-project.org/reflect/trunk



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