Issue: If we are going to allow for dynamic discovery during run-time and module load, is it neccessary to capture meta-information about the classes to simplify this?
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Well, Meta class information is information about the class as a whole, or definitional information.
As an example (although I'm not sure how useful)
consider if you want to know if an instance of the class is suitable for use as an element in an ordered list.
This would be meta class information.
Notice this isn't the same as saying it IS an element in some ordered list in the system. This is just definitional information that could be used by a system to see if putting this element in a list makes sense.
Dave
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Issue: If we are going to allow for dynamic discovery during run-time and module load, is it neccessary to capture meta-information about the classes to simplify this?
Give my slow mind an example... :}
Well, Meta class information is information about the class as a whole, or definitional information.
As an example (although I'm not sure how useful)
consider if you want to know if an instance of the class is suitable for use as an element in an ordered list.
This would be meta class information.
Notice this isn't the same as saying it IS an element in some ordered list in the system. This is just definitional information that could be used by a system to see if putting this element in a list makes sense.
Dave