From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2001-05-11T10:44:47+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:14969] Re: Class/Module Information

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Dave Thomas <Dave@PragmaticProgrammer.com>
To: ruby-talk ML <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>; <ruby-talk@netlab.co.jp>
Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 10:03 PM
Subject: [ruby-talk:14935] Re: Class/Module Information


> Before we go too far down this road, is it possible that there's
> another way of doing this altogether?
> 
> Say we had Object#reflection, which returned an object of type
> ObjectReflector. This could provide all the various introspection
> methods in one tidy place

[huge interesting snip]

Dave,

Speaking as someone who has spent many hours trying to grasp
reflection in Ruby...

I think this is the best idea I've heard in a month.

Hal