"Page, Bill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | On Thursday, July 27, 2006 9:51 AM Tim Daly wrote: | > | > Reflection involves inspecting the internal details of a | > program. A reflection domain would be able to look into other | > domains for details. A reflection domain would export a set | > of methods like fetchSignatures. | > | > So how would REFLECT get this information? ... | | Well obviously the compiler has this information when it | compiles the program but it throws most of it away after the | compile is done.
Yes. But, we should aim for an information-preserving compiler. That will be good not only for reflection, but also for debug purposes for example. -- Gaby _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
