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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 is it a bad idea to create a generic setter and getter with reflection?

I searched here on why this might be a problem, and found this question, whose answers seem to take it as a given that using reflection unless absolutely necessary is bad practice. … So, can someone verbalize why it is a given that reflection should be avoided, specifically in the case of the generic getter and setter? …
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