From: PChapin@vtc.vsc.edu   
      
   On Thu, 16 May 2013, James K. Lowden wrote:   
      
   > Many people wrongly assume that's because C++ is compiled.  It's   
   > not.  It's because of *how* it's compiled.  It's because the C++   
   > compiler discards the metadata, or makes it available only in   
   > nonstandard ways to the debugger, rather than to the language   
   > itself.   
      
   It sounds like you are asking for a standard facility for doing   
   reflection in C++. I agree that would be a useful thing at times. The   
   language does have a few bits and pieces of that feature now (I'm   
   thinking of RTTI, for example), but that's clearly a shadow of what   
   full reflection support would be like.   
      
   I wonder, though, about the runtime costs such a capability would   
   impose and if it could be implemented in such a way as to have zero   
   cost for the many programs that don't need it.   
      
   Peter   
      
      
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