The Importance of Reflection in Programming

If you write a program and you rely too much on reflection, you will be rejected by a code reviewer. If you use structs and access field with reflections, it's the same as using maps. You cannot create a priori data types for every possible combination. In object-oriented programming, what you need to do is to create another struct or if you do static typing,. While if it's used to map, you can, in a map,You can rename fields. It's just two-line functions to rename a field in a map.

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