[DGD] reflective programming under DGD

[Shentino]

Pardon me for being an utter noob, but what in tarnation does "reflective" mean?

Not a term I'm familiar with, especially wrt. dgd.

On 6/20/07, Felix A. Croes <felix at dworkin.nl> wrote:
> Carter Cheng <carter_cheng at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > I have been wondering if it is possible to do
> > reflective programming under DGD? I figure this sort
> > of thing could be quite powerful in perhaps helping to
> > implement certain features like an incremental
> > (object) garbage collector provided i had access to
> > the variable list and the types of the variables and a
> > way to reflectively load them.
>
> DGD does not support this directly.  What you could do is write your
> own LPC-to-LPC compiler (others have done this, though typically as
> a LPCish-to-LPC compiler) that preserves the information you need
> for reflection.
>
> Regards,
> Dworkin
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