Introspection

[kevin-j-channon]

C++ doesn't have introspection and it's not likely to any time soon. Layering this on with something like Carbon could be an incentive to use it, rather than just write the C++ directly.

[anton-roos]

Hi, I would like to learn more about introspection. Can you please refer me to a link to read more about this? How is this different from reflection?

[anton-roos]

I found this article :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_introspection

[kevin-j-channon]

I think "reflection" is the C# term for "introspection" (maybe some other languages too). Personally, I treat them as synonyms, but there may be some subtlety that this misses :)

EDIT: Saw the link to the article. So there you go; not quite synonyms, but one is a subset of the other :)