You guys have lost me. I'm just one of the laity and haven't been initiated
into the priesthood of programmers and it's mysteries.
(Smile)

David

clipka wrote:
> Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
>>> And I'm perfectly sure it's for the better. I know of no better tool yet to
>>> manage software complexity.
>> Metaprogramming trumps OO hands down. :-)
> 
> I'd consider that a quite orthogonal programming techniqe: The output can be
> smalltalk just as well as it can be assembler code. (Strictly speaking, *all*
> programming these days constitutes metaprogramming: Only very few modern
> computers provide interfaces to enter machine programs manually ;))
> 
> Likewise, metaprogramming can be used to implement OOP paradigms in a language
> that does not support them natively. Actually, that's how C++ started: The first
> C++ compilers generated C code.
> 
> But yes, metaprogramming does raise OO to the best of its potential: Reflection
> rules! :)
> 
> 
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