Chances of D getting proper runtime reflection?

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 8/22/11 2:22 PM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2011-08-22 21:16, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> FWIW I don't think D should pay the cost of reflection up-front and
>> compulsively for all types.
>
> So ClassInfo.getMembers is there because?

At this point the implementation is unclear on what should and what 
shouldn't be part of compiler-supplied metadata.

>> If David's code example is what you have, I don't think Orange got
>> "making a class serializable" properly yet.
>>
>>
>> Andrei
>
> You do understand that this is ONLY necessary when serializing through a
> base class reference? Other suggestions are welcome.

I do understand that point, which is unrelated to mine.


Andrei