Also known as meta-object
In computer science, a metaobject is an object that manipulates, creates, describes, or implements objects (including itself). The object that the metaobject pertains to is called the base object. Some information that a metaobject might define includes the base object's type, interface, class, methods, attributes, parse tree, etc. Metaobjects are examples of the computer science concept of reflection, where a system has access (usually at run time) to its own internal structure. Reflection enables a system to essentially rewrite itself on the fly, to alter its own implementation as it execute
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在计算机科学中,元对象(metaobject)是操纵、创建、描述或实现对象(包括自身)的对象。适用于元对象的对象叫做基础对象。元对象可以定义的一些信息包括:基础对象的类型、接口、类、方法、特性、解析树等。元对象是计算机科学反射概念的例子,这里的系统(通常在运行时间)能访问它自己的内部结构。反射在根本上确使一个系统能现场重写自身,在其运行时改变自己的实现。
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