[jcelerier]

> Reflection is generally a bad idea

it is not - dynamic reflection certainly has its issues, but static reflection is absolutely fine

> it’s good to be forced to do without it.

it just leads to people reinventing it even more badly with separate tools

[iainmerrick]

You’re right, I was just thinking about dynamic reflection.

My concern is with fiddly runtime stuff like “instanceof” -- I find that can go wrong in surprising ways. Better to just trust values to implement the interface they say they implement rather than trying to forcibly cast them.