Re: ‘Advanced AI should be treated similar to Weapons of Mass Destruction’ Community Center by rproffitt UPDATE: Feb 4, 2025 — Google on Tuesday updated its ethical guidelines around artificial intelligence, removing commitments not to apply the technology to weapons or surveillance. Re: Reflection and biologically inspired programming Programming Computer Science by 0x69 "Reflection" is unknown beast to me. But i am a … Re: Reflection vs Interface Programming Software Development by JamesCherrill Reflection is useful when you have to make calls dynamically at … Reflection Programming Software Development by ceyesuma … methods the user may choose. Do I have to use reflection or do I have to copy the bean? I am… is an idea to invoke methods at run time using reflection or to try to get this class to work and… Re: Reflection Programming Software Development by ceyesuma … the DAO to gather specific data? On the point of reflection. Would it be possible to manipulate an array at run… Reflection Programming Software Development by obscured47 ….. So.. I want to read up on app domains and reflection and all those joys of the .NET but don't… Re: Reflection Programming Software Development by Rashakil Fol … typesafe to pass in a function than something that uses reflection. REFLECTION Programming Software Development by kevin28 What is reflection in VB.NET ? Re: REFLECTION Programming Software Development by RomelynCastillo All .NET compilers produce metadata about the types defined in the modules they produce. This metadata is packaged along with the module (modules in turn are packaged together in assemblies), and can be accessed by a mechanism called reflection. Reflection Invoke Method w/ Params Programming Software Development by mariocatch Hi All, A long time ago I researched Reflection and created a solution demoing my learnt capabilities from it. … any arguments into the Invocation of the method call using reflection. I went to tackle this and I seem to be… class that is being called by the invocation of the reflection method call is set up like this: [code] public void… Reflection error: wrong no. of arguments Programming Software Development by devnar …to call a bunch of methods during run-time using reflection, but I'm getting an exception saying "IllegalArgumentException…a class, init(Object[][] args) method is called using reflection. The part of the code which creates the objects …using reflection works fine. The code blows up when the method… Reflection vs Variable Variables Programming Web Development by jkon … I can use variable variables instead of reflection in PHP but I have never gone …test1); echo "<br/><br/>"; // Reflection way $startTime2 = microtime(true); $a = "testObj"…invoke($test2,33); $endTime2 = microtime(true); echo "Reflection way: ".(number_format($endTime2 - $startTime2,10))."<… Re: Reflection vs Variable Variables Programming Web Development by mschroeder …are right on par with what you are seeing. Reflection is about twice as slow as using variable variables. I…in PHP. [CODE=TEXT] Running Benchmark: Compare Variable Variables To Reflection To Call_User_Func ====================================================================== Running Test: test_Variable_Variable Cycles: 10000 Mean: 0.… Re: Reflection vs Variable Variables Programming Web Development by jkon Thank you mschroeder for your answer. Variable variables are also reflection by the larger meaning of the word; I avoided them … code. Now I am going to use them instead of reflection classes, in the core of my applications (-framework) due to… Re: Reflection vs Variable Variables Programming Web Development by digital-ether … to … but one of them (and in any application) is reflection. The performance hit, airsidelimo, is great when you compare these… refrain from using objects. Actually, this is likely why using Reflection is slower then the variables method being discussed here. Good… Re: Reflection Invoke Method w/ Params Programming Software Development by floydus ….... hope it will help someone. [CODE] using System; using System.Reflection; private Type ProgType = Type.GetTypeFromProgID("myvb6dll.dvrObj"); // Assign… Reflection and biologically inspired programming Programming Computer Science by dumpstercake … have recently developed a strong interest in the concepts of reflection and biologically inspired programming. First, a little background, I was… my professors briefly mentioned biologically inspired programming (he also mentioned reflection in the same tangent which caught my attention by association… Reflection in Java Programming Software Development by ajst Hi guys, I've been looking into reflection and was wondering if anyone had any good tutorials or a good use for it. I understand how it works but can't think of an example of when it would actually be used. A website with a task that needs reflection to solve the answer would be good ;) Thanks in advance Re: Reflection in Java Programming Software Development by JamesCherrill … or endorsing such dubious practice). Recent annotation-based advances use Reflection to combine annotations with the Java code they annotate. Builder… tools that work with JavaBeans use reflection to obtain the properties of the beans at runtime. Re: Reflection vs Variable Variables Programming Web Development by digital-ether … do affect performance of a framework. The plus of using Reflection is that it allows arbitrary number of arguments to the… Re: Reflection vs Variable Variables Programming Web Development by jkon … to … but one of them (and in any application) is reflection. The performance hit, airsidelimo, is great when you compare these… Reflection vs Interface Programming Software Development by Japus Hello I'm wondering when it is best to use reflection to call a method instead of defining and using an … will be faster but what are the advantages of using reflection? The program I'm creating is a GUI which should… Reflection/Casting, create arbitrary Objects. Programming Software Development by SasseMan … knowing anything about the objects (with some exceptions). I use reflection to create objects and set their fields to random values… solution to. Say that an Object that is instansiated using reflection has a field, which is a Map<Object, Object… Re: Reflection/Casting, create arbitrary Objects. Programming Software Development by SasseMan … be called with a string that also is set via reflection. The point is to just create objects with arbitrary instance… with type Class<?>. I do this with with reflection. instansiate the object and recursively populate its instance variables with… Re: Reflection and biologically inspired programming Programming Computer Science by dumpstercake actually, forget that last paragraph in my post, I just want to know if anyone knows of any good articles on biologically inspired programming, meta objects, or reflection. Re: Reflection in Java Programming Software Development by ajst So in reality there is not really a need or use for Reflection in a normal programming. (not including dubious practices) From reading articles since I posted this it seems it is mainly used as you said for things like netbeans and ecliplse. so its just something handy to know about but nothing I could really use in a program I make? Re: Reflection vs Interface Programming Software Development by Japus [QUOTE=JamesCherrill;1568256]Reflection is useful when you have to make calls dynamically at … Re: Reflection vs Interface Programming Software Development by jwenting In general, use reflection only if there's no other way that gets the job done :) IOW, if you don't KNOW you require it, you probably don't. It's there fore specific corner cases, which many people are unlikely to ever come up against, especially in their first years of using Java. Re: Reflection/Casting, create arbitrary Objects. Programming Software Development by ~s.o.s~ …] Also, when you instantiate any "generic" object using reflection, all the bets are off (given that you have used… Re: Reflection/Casting, create arbitrary Objects. Programming Software Development by SasseMan … perspective). When I get the fields of a class using reflection, I know that the field is supposed to be an…