Java Was Strongly Influenced by Objective-C

Post by vlisivka » Fri, Feb 12, 2010, 8:57 AM UTC

duskwuff wrote: post #40

dminor wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, although Java's reflection is somewhat of a pain in the ass and limited in many ways. But you can take a Class object and call newInstance(), and it will invoke the class's no-arg constructor.

Moreover, reflection is less of a language feature and more of a very low-level library feature. In ObjC, one can write Class c = [SomeRandomClass class]; id thingy = [[c alloc] init]; but Java won't let you do the equivalent: Class c = SomeRandomClass; Object x = new c;

  Class c = SomeRandomClass.class;
  Object x=c.newInstance();

Post by duskwuff » Sat, Feb 13, 2010, 8:37 PM UTC

vlisivka wrote: post #51

duskwuff wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Moreover, reflection is less of a language feature and more of a very low-level library feature. In ObjC, one can write Class c = [SomeRandomClass class]; id thingy = [[c alloc] init]; but Java won't let you do the equivalent: Class c = SomeRandomClass; Object x = new c;

Class c = SomeRandomClass.class; Object x=c.newInstance();