--- Andreas Håkansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >*** BZZZZ - wrong. You ARE invasive if you ask for custom attributes. > >You will never be able to serialize private attributes "non-invasive". > > [Andreas] I would be intressting to see how you could utilize > aspect-orientated programming to get around having to derive > all of objects that should be able to persist from a given > class. Adding the layer of omnipresense to a class is sweet > music to my *not-been-getting-my-hands-dirty-working-on-production > -code-since-i'm-still-a-student* ears.
I definitely think the generative programming route is the way to go to get performance and flexibility. I feel it would be rare that you would need metadata at runtime for any technical reason. I suspect it is just easier to implement via runtime reflection hence people look to go down that route. Peter __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Mother's Day is May 12th! http://shopping.yahoo.com You can read messages from the DOTNET archive, unsubscribe from DOTNET, or subscribe to other DevelopMentor lists at http://discuss.develop.com.
