Re: Getting Method objects without reflection

mark@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> And also, methods and fields can be obfuscated while strings cannot.
> So being able to call getName() on a Field has a big security advantage
> over using raw reflection.

Since this feature -- if it were added -- would certainly be implemented by the
compiler generating traditional (string-based) reflective code under-the-hood,
I don't think that it would permit more thorough obfuscation that is currently
possible.

Personally, I can see some motivation for this, but I think it provides too
little benefit to justify the cost in complexity (for me, the programmer,
having to learn and use an even /more/ grossly over-complicated language) nor
in development costs (/every/ tool which is Java source-code aware -- e.g..
Eclipse -- would have to be updated).

BTW, the syntax you propose would not work for reflective access to either
constructors or fields, and that -- IMO -- is a big negative point.

-- chris


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