Re: [xmlvm-users] NSObject dispatchObject

[Paul P. <bay...@gm...>]

That's good!  I'll get off my soapbox :)

On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 11:11 AM, Panayotis Katsaloulis <
pan...@pa...> wrote:

>
> On May 25, 2011, at 5:55 PM, Paul Poley wrote:
>
> > I'm going to go off on a tangent here, not really directed at this
> conversation, but somewhat relevant.
> >
> > My opinion is that reflection is a necessary evil that should be avoided
> whenever possible.  One of the key words in that is "necessary."  A great
> use of reflection is for web services or other generated code.  And that
> equivalent is appropriately used in XMLVM.  I believe it is okay in this
> type of situation because all parts using reflection are generated & not
> typed by hand.  E.g. a web service is generated & a client is generated, so
> if an update occurs, we just regenerate.
> >
> > The "evil" part, in my opinion, comes when developers are manually typing
> method names & class names into Strings, thus avoiding the compiler.  This
> is unfortunately not a rarity in the real world, such as in configuration
> files.  My hope is that as annotations gain muster, they will help squash
> that practice where they can.
> >
> > I realize there are exceptions to what I just said, but I still try to
> avoid it at all costs.  Since reflection is learned at a more advanced
> stage, it seems it is sometimes considered advantageous & advanced to use
> it, but I believe that to be a misconception.
> >
> > Anyways, I am not trying to contradict anything in this email chain, but
> rather just get on my soapbox about "evil" reflection & have a conversation
> in general.  I'm interested if anyone has some other thoughts on this.
> >
> > Paul
>
> Exactly, this is the spirit of this change - to get rid of reflection. :)
>
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