[Cuis-dev] reflection in Cuis

[Mark Volkmann]

Is there a way to find these things?

- all installed packages
- all class categories
- all classes in a given class category
- all message categories used by a given class
- the source code for a given method as a string or tree of AST nodes

On Fri, Jun 14, 2024 at 12:48 PM Hernán Wilkinson <
hernan.wilkinson at 10pines.com> wrote:

> well, they are all kind of Collection :-) and if all you need is what
> Collection defines as protocol is good enough. ... that is the whole idea
> behind polymorphism. That does not mean that maybe returning an Array
> instead of a Set is better in some message, but we should see case by case,
> how it is used that message, etc.
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 14, 2024 at 2:32 PM Mark Volkmann via Cuis-dev <
> cuis-dev at lists.cuis.st> wrote:
>
>> I've learned how to discover lots of things using reflection, but not the
>> following. Are there methods that return these?
>>
>> - all installed packages
>> - all class categories
>> - all classes in a given class category
>> - all message categories used by a given class
>> - the source code for a given method as a string or tree of AST nodes
>>
>> There seems to be some inconsistencies in the kind of object returned by
>> the reflection methods. I've encountered at least these so far: Array, Set,
>> IdentitySet, and OrderCollection. I understand the distinction between
>> these collection types, but it's not clear why the reflection methods don't
>> all return the same kind of collection.
>>
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>> R. Mark Volkmann
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