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Reflection is the ability of a computer program to examine, introspect, and modify its own structure and behavior at runtime.

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Why use a special "Name" class (instead of just a string) for representing object names in C++?

from everything I've seen, the Name class has no purpose besides providing a mutex, various asserts and other runtime error checking This is the reason why — it has behavior associated with it, whic …
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