Compiler patch for runtime reflection

[Alex Rønne Petersen]

On 22-10-2011 17:18, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
> On Sat, 22 Oct 2011 16:35:57 +0300, Alex Rønne Petersen
> <xtzgzorex at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 22-10-2011 15:20, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
>>> On 10/22/11, Vladimir Panteleev<vladimir at thecybershadow.net> wrote:
>>>> On Sat, 22 Oct 2011 13:50:32 +0300, Alex Rønne Petersen
>>>> <xtzgzorex at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> You could just introduce a -reflection switch to include reflection
>>>>> information.
>>>>
>>>> As I mentioned in the previous thread on the subject, I think that
>>>> ideally
>>>> we should improve compile-time reflection so it's possible to generate
>>>> runtime reflection information at compilation time. Something like
>>>> this:
>>>>
>>>> import reflection;
>>>>
>>>> enum reflectionForStdStdio = generateReflectionForModule("std.stdio");
>>>>
>>>> void main()
>>>> {
>>>> reflectionForStdStdio.callFunction("writeln", "Hello, world!");
>>>> }
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Best regards,
>>>> Vladimir mailto:vladimir at thecybershadow.net
>>>>
>>>
>>> I think user properties would be a perfect fit for this. :)
>>>
>>> @reflected
>>> struct Foo {}
>>
>> The only downside with either approach
>
> What do you mean by "either approach"? Which is the other one?
>

@reflected and generateReflectionForModule.

- Alex