[Chicago-talk] Asking an class for its method list

[Steven Lembark]

-- Ed Summers <ehs at pobox.com>

> On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 12:05:18AM -0600, Steven Lembark wrote:
>> Again, why would someone need this...
>
> Reflection is useful when you are doing stuff (like I was a year ago)
> writing an application that would create a directed graph of a
> particularly nasty and complicated class hierarchy. OOP is great, but
> sometimes it's  hard for a new person coming in to picture that hierarchy
> in their head, especially if the classes themselves have crap names.
>
> But, as you say, this is a type of auto-documentation...which is a handy
> thing  to be able to do, especially in large and complicated systems.

For doc's I can see it, for code I cannot see where blah->can($name)
won't do the deed.


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