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    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflective_programming

    Reflective programming - Wikipedia

    In computer science, reflective programming or reflection is the ability of a process to examine, introspect, and modify its own structure and behavior. See more

    Historical background

    The earliest computers were programmed in their native assembly languages, which were inherently reflective, as these original architectures could be programmed by defining instructions … See more

    Security considerations

    Reflection may allow a user to create unexpected control flow paths through an application, potentially bypassing security measures. This … See more

    Examples

    The following code snippets create an instance foo of class Foo and invoke its method PrintHello. For each programming language, normal and reflection-based call sequences are shown. See more

    Uses

    Reflection helps programmers make generic software libraries to display data, process different formats of data, perform serialization See more

    Implementation

    A language supporting reflection provides a number of features available at runtime that would otherwise be difficult to accomplish in a lower-level language. Some of these … See more

    See also

    • List of reflective programming languages and platforms
    • Mirror (programming)
    • Programming paradigms See more

    Further reading

    • Ira R. Forman and Nate Forman, Java Reflection in Action (2005), ISBN 1-932394-18-4
    • Ira R. Forman and Scott Danforth, Putting Metaclasses … See more

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  2. How-To Geek
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    What is "Reflection" in Programming? - How-To Geek

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  3. Medium
    https://medium.com/full-stack-engineer/what-is-reflective-program…

    What Is Reflective Programming? | Full Stack Engineer - Medium

  4. Stack Overflow
    https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37628

    java - What is reflection and why is it useful? - Stack Overflow

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  5. Envisioning
    https://www.envisioning.io/vocab/reflective-programming

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  6. ThemeWaves
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    Demystifying Reflective Programming Languages – ThemeWaves

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    What is reflection in programming?
    Reflection is a programming technique that gives code introspective abilities. Effective use of reflection lets you write more dynamic systems and benefit from increased automation. You can also use reflection to unit test otherwise unreachable private code. You do need to exercise caution.

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    What is reflective programming?
    Reflective programming is a mechanism that lets a process introspective capabilities. Reflective programming is a mechanism that lets a process introspective capabilities. The reflection APIs built into programming languages allow you to inspect code at runtime. You can use this ability to learn about the surrounding codebase and its contents.

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    What is reflection in Computer Science?
    In computer science, reflection is the ability of a computer program to examine, introspect, and modify its own structure and behavior at runtime. So what does that mean? Reflection is a term thrown around every now and again and but do you really know what it means? Why and when it should be used, and what are its main strengths?

    Coding Concepts - Reflection - DEV Community

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    What is a reflection oriented program?
    Reflection can be used for observing and modifying program execution at runtime. A reflection-oriented program component can monitor the execution of an enclosure of code and can modify itself according to a desired goal of that enclosure. This is typically accomplished by dynamically assigning program code at runtime.

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  8. DEV Community
    https://dev.to/chris_bertrand/coding-concepts---reflection-4d2c

    Coding Concepts - Reflection - DEV Community

  9. elc.github.io
    https://elc.github.io/understanding-programming-paradigms/chapter…

    Reflective Paradigm — Understanding Programming Paradigms

  10. DEV Community
    https://dev.to/bshadmehr/reflecting-on-pythons-reflection-a-guide-to...

    Reflecting on Python's Reflection: A Guide to Metaprogramming …

  11. oracle.com
    https://blogs.oracle.com/javamagazine/post/java-reflection...

    Reflection for the modern Java programmer - Oracle Blogs

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