POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.advanced-users : POVRay and XML : Re: POVRay and XML Server Time
29 Jul 2024 00:30:13 EDT (-0400)
  Re: POVRay and XML  
From: Bernd Fuhrmann
Date: 1 Jan 2005 13:54:48
Message: <41d6f1f8@news.povray.org>
Darren New wrote:
> Bernd Fuhrmann wrote:
> 
>> Do you know any programming language what is able to access it's own 
>> objects that way?
> 
> 
> Quite a few. LISP, Tcl, Forth, etc. The term you're looking for is 
> either "introspection" or "reflection", depending on precisely what 
> kinds of data you're looking for.
Thanks for that hint. You're right. Some commonly used languages are 
indeed introspective.

Regards,
Bernd Fuhrmann


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