"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Can you elaborate on compile-time reflection? We have the type-traits
> library, which may be an example what you have in mind. But this will
> always be limited without further compiler support.
The compile-time reflection capabilities of C++ are impressive, but
still quite limited. For example, I'd like to be able to find out
about all of the members and member functions of a class, and all of
the free functions declared in a namespace.
> It would be ideal to see some kind of typeof operator added to the
> C++ standard.
Heh. typeof would be nice but it barely scratches the surface of
the possible and missing reflective capabilities.
> In the meantime (which could be a loong time ;-), I'd like a
> workable reflection framework. Whether it belongs to Boost is
> certainly an open question, however.
>
> A reflective framework could be in three stages: a preprocessing stage
> (which creates the reflection data), an optional code
> generation/transformation stage, then a compilation stage. In this sense,
> it would be both a compile and run-time framework.
Sounds like a great idea to me.
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