Algebraic types and subclassing

Nick Kallen phantom@earthlink.net
Fri, 13 Mar 1998 14:35:21 -0800


>>>- Another pipe dream: reflection. I think reflection might be a useful
>>>feature in some contexts.
>>
>>Why?


After thinking about this more, I'm not entirely certain that the concept of
reflection makes any sense in purely functional languages. So I take it
back. Scratch that and replace it with Translational Programming and
metaprogramming facilities. I believe someone at cs.kun.nl did some work on
Translational Programming...