What is the difference between Mirror based reflection and traditional reflection?

Asked 2012-08-26T17:20:30.157

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Some languages like Dart use mirror based reflection so, in simple terms, what is the difference between such implementation and traditional reflection as you see in C# or Java.

Update: I found this excellent (and somewhat quirky) video by Gilad Bracha on Mirror based reflection in Newspeak. http://www.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/hirschfeld/events/past/media/100105_Bracha_2010_LinguisticReflectionViaMirrors_HPI.mp4 (mirror stuff starts at 7:42)

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I would also point you to this other recent answer by Gilad, where he lists some other great reference material: How to get concrete object of a static method via mirror API?

answered 2012-08-26T20:37:37.033

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