Re: [Opencxx-users] openc++ limitations

[Yann D. <yd...@us...>]

On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 01:12:57PM -0700, Brendan Miller wrote:
> > Out of curiosity: what are you aiming to do ? Metaprogramming via templates
> > and via OpenC++ are two radically different approaches. Do you want to mix
> > them ? Or have you ran into limitations of what you can do via template
> > metaprogramming, and now are hoping to find a way using OpenC++ ?
> 
> I ran into the problem that there's no way to get a list at compile
> time (or even run time for that matter) of the members of a class. Nor
> is there any way to operate on types in place.

This kind of metaprogramming is not unlike what Qt provides.  See
eg. http://doc.trolltech.com/4.3/object.html and
http://doc.trolltech.com/4.3/metaobjects.html

HTH,
-- 
Yann