Relfection and Annotations?

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Marty Pitt

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Oct 11, 2011, 4:50:23 AM10/11/11

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Hi there

First up - congrats, this language looks great, and a pragmatic "best
of both worlds" that I've been waiting for.

I've done a tonne of framework development in Actionscript / Flex, and
looking forward to getting into porting some of it across to Dart.

However, most of the frameworks make use of reflection and metadata /
annotations in some way. Are we likely to see support for these in
Dart in the future, or is it time for a paradigm shift when thinking
about building frameworks? (I note that one of the articles mentions
that Dart discourages "gratuitous use of reflection")

Gilad Bracha

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Oct 11, 2011, 4:54:54 AM10/11/11

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Marty,

There will be reflection support, based on the notion of mirrors. That said, you want to think careful whether reflection is the best way to do what you're doing.

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Cheers, Gilad

Florian Loitsch

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Oct 11, 2011, 4:55:14 AM10/11/11

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Reflection-support: definitely. It will be inspired by http://bracha.org/mirrors.pdf

Annotation-support: probably.

// florian

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