• dennis luehring <dl.soluz gmx.net> Sep 10 2007
• Daniel Keep <daniel.keep.lists gmail.com> Sep 11 2007

dennis luehring <dl.soluz gmx.net> writes:

source:
   http://www.digitalmars.com/d/phobos/object.html
   and page 44 of WalterAndrei.pdf presentation

"...Run-time reflection can then be done in a library based on 
compile-time reflection..."

does that mean that most of the Object/Interface... stuff will be 
deprecated then? most of the feature are runtime-reflection based, or?

ciao dennis

Daniel Keep <daniel.keep.lists gmail.com> writes:

dennis luehring wrote:
 source:
   http://www.digitalmars.com/d/phobos/object.html
   and page 44 of WalterAndrei.pdf presentation
 
 "...Run-time reflection can then be done in a library based on
 compile-time reflection..."
 
 does that mean that most of the Object/Interface... stuff will be
 deprecated then? most of the feature are runtime-reflection based, or?
 
 ciao dennis


I doubt it.  I mean, without basic RTTI, you can't do object casting
safely.  You can't use structs as keys in AAs.  You can't convert
structs to strings[1].

Rather, I suspect the new traits stuff will complement and expand on
what we can do at runtime.

	-- Daniel

[1] Well, you can't do this in Tango, either.  But that's neither here
nor there :)