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Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 16:59:13 +0200
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On 15.06.11 12:30, Natasha Kerensikova wrote:

> I know other high-level languages do have introspection mechanisms, but
> I haven't seen anything like that in Ada. Have I missed them?

You could build something around (external) tag names.

Or you could build a compiler into an ASIS program or
vice versa. This should be a pretty powerful team.