Re: [boost] Library Proposal: Reflection for C++

From: Stefan Roiser (stefan.roiser_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-01-30 08:18:04

pongba <pongba <at> gmail.com> writes:

> 
> Stefan Roiser <stefan.roiser <at> cern.ch> writes:
> 
> > 
> > We would like to propose a library and tools which enhance C++ with  
> > reflection capabilities. The package, "Reflex", provides a library  
> > for runtime introspection and interaction with C++ "constructs" such  
> > as objects, types, scopes, members, templated types, ... 
> 
> It sounds pretty interesting:)
> I extremely hoped that C++ would have reflection at, maybe, C++0x or so.
> So I wish your library can make its way into boost, and, finally, into C++
> standard  library.
> 
> BTW, to me, it seems the user-interface of the library needs some further
> refinement though, and there's quite a lack of documents.
> 

Thx, I will be very interested to receive comments on the library. There are some
examples on the web-page to give a look and feel of how it works. I have added 
doxygen documentation for the API classes at

http://seal.web.cern.ch/seal/documents/dictionary/reflex/doxygen/html/index.html