Re: [ANN] an EBNF parser and coding pattern tool (LGPL)

[Hyman Rosen <hyrosen@mail.com>]

Cedric LEMAIRE wrote:
> The C++ compiler doesn't give you introspection to implement C++
> templates that work on the composition of a class.

Yes, this is true. To get this would require support from the
compiler, and I imagine would look something like this - the
result of introspect<T> for some type T would be a class with
informative members, some of which would be like Alexandrescu's
type lists that would carry member and base class information
and could be processed recursively by other templates. We would
also want an equivalent dynamic interface, so that we could take
a polymorphic pointer or reference and deal with its introspection
at runtime.
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