From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,63fa88e2f1a3ebea X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!proxad.net!usenet-fr.net!news.enst.fr!melchior!cuivre.fr.eu.org!melchior.frmug.org!not-for-mail From: Stephen Leake Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Universal type in Ada Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 22:54:01 -0400 Organization: Cuivre, Argent, Or Message-ID: References: <6x57sZABaxNz@eisner.encompasserve.org> <1118927593.623683.105940@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lovelace.ada-france.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: melchior.cuivre.fr.eu.org 1118976863 84227 212.85.156.195 (17 Jun 2005 02:54:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@melchior.cuivre.fr.eu.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 02:54:23 +0000 (UTC) Cc: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org To: zw@cs.man.ac.uk Return-Path: In-Reply-To: <1118927593.623683.105940@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> (zw@cs.man.ac.uk's message of "16 Jun 2005 06:13:13 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3 (windows-nt) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p10 (Debian) at ada-france.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Gateway to the comp.lang.ada Usenet newsgroup" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:11440 Date: 2005-06-16T22:54:01-04:00 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