I wish I could use D for everything

[Robert Fraser]

Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
> Yes, I use reflection in some of my code, and it definitely has to come 
> to D sometime.  At least if I wanted to port my current project to D it 
> would have to ;)

It's in D, just not standardized. There used to be a project 
"flectioned" by Thomas Khune that allowed reflection by either importing 
the map file or adding debug symbols in Windows (in Linux, it worked 
even on non-debug builds). It doesn't compile on the newer versions of 
D, but it shouldn't be too hard to fix up.

A different option would be to use some template/mixin magic to add 
specified classes to a set of exported/reflectable types. A good example 
of this is MiniD's binding libraries or PyD, which allow you to very 
easily wrap a module/class/etc. and make the names visible to a dynamic 
language.