• Colin JN Breame (12/12) Apr 19 2004 I've just read the article on OSNews and looked at some of the language
• J Anderson (17/28) Apr 19 2004 Not yet. Well there is RTTI. See

Colin JN Breame <Colin_member pathlink.com> writes:

I've just read the article on OSNews and looked at some of the language
reference.  It all looks very exciting and exactly the kind of language I would
like to use (I was considering learning ML but that can wait!)

Just a few questions:

- are there any facilities for type introspection?  and attaching meta-data
elements (e.g. to class, function, etc.)?
- can I cast from an array of objects to an array of my type?
- is there support for dynamically loading modules?
- is there any will to standardise the language?

Tremendous effort and maximum Kudos to Walter et al. - looks like you've put a
lot of thought into the design.

(ps. the Gnome guys are looking for a language just like this)

J Anderson <REMOVEanderson badmama.com.au> writes:

Colin JN Breame wrote:

I've just read the article on OSNews and looked at some of the language
reference.  It all looks very exciting and exactly the kind of language I would
like to use (I was considering learning ML but that can wait!)

Just a few questions:

- are there any facilities for type introspection?  and attaching meta-data
elements (e.g. to class, function, etc.)?
  

Not yet.  Well there is RTTI.  See 
http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?HowTo/RealtimeTypeInformation.  
This has been much-discussed.  One of the number one questions I believe.

- can I cast from an array of objects to an array of my type?
  

Sure.

class A {  }
class B {  }

void main()
{
    A a[100] = new A[100];
    B b[100] = new B[100];
   
    a[] = (A[]) b[];
}  

- is there support for dynamically loading modules?
  

LoadLibarary, just like in C.

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