On 10/25/11 1:05 PM, Robert Jacques wrote:
On Tue, 25 Oct 2011 11:31:18 -0400, Gor Gyolchanyan
<gor.f.gyolchan...@gmail.com> wrote:
As i said before, enabling reflection manually is an act of enabling a
certain range of stuff you can do with the code. Forgetting to enable
reflection can lead to serious problems, when the reflection is
required.
And when, precisely, is reflection _required_? Granted, in other
languages it is the only tool for the job. But we have a very big
toolkit in D, and so far, I have yet to see any example (including
Rails) which _requires_ the holistic runtime reflection proposed in
these threads.
This is completely true. Something like:
class Person < ActiveRecord::Base
belongs_to :company
end
could be done at compile-time. Same as retrieving the schema from mysql:
could be done at compile-time, like Nemerle does (or so I remember
someone said that).
Me too, believes that greater compile-time capabilities will make almost
all (but never all) runtime reflection unnecessary.
