Computer Science 101...

This of course is nonsense.

The situation gets significantly worse when the interpreters can work
with calculus rather than algebra. Neural networks are possible the
ultimate example of self modifying (trainable?) structures that can't
explain themselves.

Reflection is just the runtime (and essential) part of optimisation.

Rick

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> On 8/16/07, *Sylvain LOISEAU* <sylvain.loiseau@w...
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>     Can I say that?
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> Reflection for SQL?
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflection_(computer_science)
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflection_%28computer_science%29>
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> SQL is a query language, is designed to describe a information
> request, you have a prior knowledge about structure.
> You will ask about "SELECT Name FROM Horses WHERE Type=1", because you
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> SQL has not been designed for reflection, but there are extensions, so
> you can do that. But will feel like OOP  with C, the languaje support
> for it will [expletive deleted].
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