Hi there,

I am a newbie here, but really like D (at least theoretically from specs). So my
question is probably very simple and was discussed here for sure (but I dont
like to sweep the whole board).

How D supports reflection and dynamic class loading, member listing..

(I just read the language comparison again)

Is it correct that there is no support for it? at least not a convenient one?

Thanks - wish great D-future

wonder

Hi,

I'm a newbie too, so feel free to correct me if I'm off track...

My guess is that D is a compiled and linked language, more akin to C or C++
than
Java in the development cycle, class loading is just a bit too much to ask.
Of course,
its still possible to create a dynamic library (shared library) and use that
I'd guess - at
least on Windows (don't know how such things work on Linux/UNIX).

One thing I definitely would like to see would be a library version of the
compiler, this
would be nicer for such tasks than having to spawn a new process. That's a
common
want for me with such things - and I've always liked the approach of Java
and such
environments for this.

As far as Reflection is concerned, all I know is that Object supports a
classinfo method,
this returns an instance of ClassInfo, but there is no documentation yet -
just the contents
of Object.d

HTH,

Rob

<wonder@szm.sk> wrote in message news:d033o5$1d38$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> Hi there,
>
> I am a newbie here, but really like D (at least theoretically from specs).
> So my
> question is probably very simple and was discussed here for sure (but I
> dont
> like to sweep the whole board).
>
> How D supports reflection and dynamic class loading, member listing..
>
> (I just read the language comparison again)
>
> Is it correct that there is no support for it? at least not a convenient one?
>
> Thanks - wish great D-future
>
> wonder
>
>