On Thu, 30 Apr 2009 18:46:47 -0400, Robert Fraser
<[email protected]> wrote:
Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
Yes, I use reflection in some of my code, and it definitely has to come
to D sometime. At least if I wanted to port my current project to D it
would have to ;)
It's in D, just not standardized. There used to be a project
"flectioned" by Thomas Khune that allowed reflection by either importing
the map file or adding debug symbols in Windows (in Linux, it worked
even on non-debug builds). It doesn't compile on the newer versions of
D, but it shouldn't be too hard to fix up.
A different option would be to use some template/mixin magic to add
specified classes to a set of exported/reflectable types. A good example
of this is MiniD's binding libraries or PyD, which allow you to very
easily wrap a module/class/etc. and make the names visible to a dynamic
language.
I load executable assemblies dynamically and examine the attributes of
classes to determine how to process them. I don't think D is quite there,
but I have faith it will be.
And one of the things you said is key: "used to be"...
besides, I'm using a lot of .Net APIs and it would be difficult to switch
them to D, so I sort of am not giving you the *only* thing that would have
to be done to port my project to D ;)
As a side note though, one of the clients that uses the server is
completely written in D because it runs on a very small Linux OS. It is
actually the reason I started learning D in the first place (Didn't want
to install C++ libs, didn't want to do network programming in C *shudder*).
-Steve
