Re:Java Was Strongly Influenced by Objective-C
by dminor on Thursday February 11, 2010 @08:41PM
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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.
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Re:Java Was Strongly Influenced by Objective-C
by duskwuff on Thursday February 11, 2010 @08:58PM
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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];
Class c = SomeRandomClass;
Object x = new c;