Re: Object.factory() and exe file size bloat

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On Friday, 21 August 2015 at 13:18:17 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
On 2015-08-21 12:44, Walter Bright wrote:
Object.factory() only has a point when it is used to 
instantiate classes
in a DLL/so. It fits in nicely with export.

It's useful for deserialization as well.

Btw we use it for high-level testing framework - will be rather 
hard to move that to compile-time approach until some reflection 
bugs gets fixed.