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From: Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@acm.org>
To: zw@cs.man.ac.uk
Cc: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org
Subject: Re: Universal type in Ada
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 22:54:01 -0400
Date: 2005-06-16T22:54:01-04:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <mailman.54.1118976863.17633.comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1118927593.623683.105940@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> (zw@cs.man.ac.uk's message of "16 Jun 2005 06:13:13 -0700")

zw@cs.man.ac.uk writes:

> Yes, I am trying to transfer a program in Java to Ada. Because as far
> as I know there is no reflection mechanisms in Ada, 

Reflection in Ada is provided by ASIS.

It's a separate pass at compile time, rather than integrated at run
time. So it is a different flavor.

> so what I do is to try to create a new API for reflection in Ada
> that would do someting similar to java.lang.reflect

Depending on what you want to do with reflection, ASIS might be the
right answer.

-- 
-- Stephe




  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-06-17  2:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-06-15 13:07 Universal type in Ada zw
2005-06-15 13:32 ` Larry Kilgallen
2005-06-16 13:13   ` zw
2005-06-16 14:36     ` Preben Randhol
2005-06-17  2:54     ` Stephen Leake [this message]
2005-06-19 17:38     ` Martin Krischik
2005-06-15 13:55 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2005-06-15 14:37   ` Preben Randhol
2005-06-15 16:48     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2005-06-15 14:34 ` Preben Randhol
2005-06-16 13:10   ` zw
2005-06-15 16:31 ` Georg Bauhaus
2005-06-16  8:18 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
2005-06-16 11:59   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2005-06-16 13:23     ` zw
2005-06-16 14:19       ` jimmaureenrogers
2005-06-16 14:31       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2005-06-19 17:31       ` Martin Krischik
2005-06-19 17:26 ` Martin Krischik
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