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GeneralRe: "scary AI" that will disrupt GMail ? dev knows about "disruption" by GMail because he created it ? Pin
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NewsThe Rune programming language Pin
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Gary Wheeler7-Dec-22 9:54
Gary Wheeler7-Dec-22 9:54 
I was conflating the notions of new concepts with features and even syntactic sugar. Significant conceptual changes are few and far between. As I mentioned, functional programming is a 'recent' concept.
trønderen wrote:
if you use reflection to its full extent, it might change you think differently of programming
The thing I like about reflection is you can use compiler 'knowledge' inherent in your source code. For example, I have an application that implements a plug-in approach to organizing functionality. The various plug-ins are identified at startup using reflection and the interfaces implemented by the classes in each assembly. A class can say its an IWidget by simply implementing that interface. The appeal is that the knowledge that the Im_A_Widget class is a widget is only specified simply and in a single place, within the class itself. You don't have to use extra functions to hook things together.

I understand that reflection can be used to generate/compile/execute code at runtime, but I've never encountered a good use case in my work for it. That strikes me as "self-modifying" code, a practice which I've almost always abhored.
Software Zen: delete this;

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