Introduction to OOP

Chapter 25: Reflection and Introspection :

Things you can do with a Class Variable

One operation that can be performed with a value of type class is to get its parent class

	Class parentClass = aClass.getSuperclass(); // Java

Another operation is to get the list of all subclasses for a class.

	aSet <- aClass subclasses  " Smalltalk "

You can also get the name of the class as a string

	char * name = typeinfo(aVariable).name();  // C++