An approach to introduce the reflection to C++

The authors report on their work to introduce the reflective architecture in a popular compilation-based language, C++, without modifying the compiler. The reflective architecture provides a disciplined split between the object level and the meta-object level in a class-based form. The unit of causal connections is the class member function. Mechanisms based on the methods diversion are constructed to support a kind of implicitly causal connection. A delegation mechanism is constructed for sharing meta-methods whose classes are not designed as having inheritance. A prototype has been constructed in the Advantage C++ 1.1 M4 running on MSDOS.<>