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Andrei Alexandrescu SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org
Sat Feb 28 20:46:37 PST 2009


Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 10:49 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu
> <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:
>> Edward Diener wrote:
>>> I argued for this in the past on this NG but still no one seems to have
>>> picked up the idea that a full reflection library for D, supported fully by
>>> the compiler, would be a great thing. It would also allow RAD programming
>>> with D outside of the functionality one could use in 3rd party tools
>>> designed around full run-time reflection capabilities.
>> D2 will have reflection. (Walter doesn't know yet. He thinks D3 will have
>> reflection.) It will be compile-time reflection because only run-time
>> reflection only is missing the point.
> 
> Will it be implemented through __traits, or *yet another* compile-time
> introspection facility?

Whatever it'll be, I'm sure it will not shut off your whine noise 
generator :o).

Andrei



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