From: Dennis Decker Jensen <dennisdecker@...>
Date: 2001-05-11T23:15:54+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:14999] SV:  Re: Class/Module Information

Hi,

Dave Thomas wrote:
| matz@zetabits.com (Yukihiro Matsumoto) writes:
|
| > So there're three separate (but related) possible RCRs:
| >
| >   Module#included_modules(includeIndirect=true)
| >   Module#constants(includeSuper=true)
| >   Module#class_variables(includeSuper=true)
|
| 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

[good example]

| This seems tidier to me, and sets a precedent should we ever allow
| other forms of reflection.

If introspection or reflection in Ruby is going to grow, this sounds like a
extremely good suggestion. Is it going to?

Mostly I find code with introspection hard to read and understand -- even in
Ruby...:). Something like ObjectReflector would help I think if more
introspection is on its way...

--
Dennis Decker Jensen