Re: introspection in SML

michele.simionato@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
> On Dec 4, 9:44 am, Jon Harrop <use...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> michele.simion...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
>> Introspection can be very useful and is the right tool for many jobs
and,
>> as you have discovered, is basically completely absent from SML.
>>
>> I would say that your options are basically OCaml or F#.
>>
>> OCaml has a macro system that makes it easy to extend the syntax of the
>> language (e.g. with test augmentations) and manipulate its ASTs _prior_
>> to batch compilation.
> 
> A macro facility has nothing to do with introspection: does OCaml have
> introspection or not? 

The problems you described are easily solved using macros in OCaml.

>> F# is far more advanced and more useful because it carries relevant
>> information at run-time, so you can dynamically determine the members
of
>> an object and invoke them.
> 
> That's interesting, but I do not develop on Windows.

Then use Mono.

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