A system for reflection in C++

Details A system for reflection in C++ A system for reflection in C++

2004-01-27

arxiv.org/abs/cs/0401024v1

Proceedings AUUG 2001: Always on and Everywhere, 207. ISBN 0957753225

Computer Science

Programming Languages

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Object-oriented programming languages such as Java and Objective C have become popular for implementing agent-based and other object-based simulations since objects in those languages can {\em reflect} (i.e. make runtime queries of an object's structure). This allows, for example, a fairly trivial {\em serialisation} routine (conversion of an object into a binary representation that can be stored or passed over a network) to be written. However C++ does not offer this ability, as type information is thrown away at compile time. Yet C++ is often a preferred development environment, whether for performance reasons or for its expressive features such as operator overloading. In this paper, we present the {\em Classdesc} system which brings many of the benefits of object reflection to C++.

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