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Re: [c++, cxx-reflection] Initial thoughts on type reflection.
- From: Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr at integrable-solutions dot net>
- To: Phil Edwards <phil at jaj dot com>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: 10 Mar 2003 06:05:02 +0100
- Subject: Re: [c++, cxx-reflection] Initial thoughts on type reflection.
- Organization: Integrable Solutions
- References: <20030310032049.GA26997@disaster.jaj.com>
Phil Edwards <phil at jaj dot com> writes:
[...]
| Reactions from anybody, before I raise the more controversial issues in a
| few days?
You know I said this in private but I'll restate it here again: We need
first to have a better shape for the existing built-in machinery.
For example, there are things expanded by the front-end and we don't
want RTL for them; the existing framework has everything we need
except that it insists on RTL. We need to refine that, for example.
If we don't clarify the exsiting machinery, I'm afraid we'll build on
something that is/looks obscur.
-- Gaby