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Namespace 'meta' is way too common, so it can lead to some name conflicts. 'metastuff', maybe? I won't change anything for now, so I'll leave it open for discussion.

I propose the following :

namespace ms

for MetaStuff, metastuff is way too long for a namespace.

It looks like "ms" namespace is not used by any major library, but still, it seems kinda generic. And you can do this:

namespace ms = metastuff;

Then I don't see any objection about using metastuff as namespace

Yeah, now it looks like a good name. I'm still not 100% sure about MetaStuff name, as it's a bit too generic as well (it would better suit a general purpose meta-programming library), but I think I'll go with metastuff if I don't find something better.

MetaStuff as the name of the library?

Yes, maybe library needs a better name.

How about "SelfReflect" or the like? More than a better name it needs documentation, I have troubles figuring out all the tricks.

Yes, SelfReflect sounds pretty good! I like that people can also do something like:

namespace sr = SelfReflect

Docs - yeah... I just put it as a proof of concept at first. Didn't really think people are going to use it in real projects.

If you have some questions - feel free to make issues or mail me. For now, example and this article are the main sources. In the future I'll be able to write docs, yes.

Last Christmas, I was playing around with reflection ideas, and created a little library (not on Github, and probably won't be) called Spiegel, which is German for mirror. Maybe Zerkalo, which Google translate tells me is Russian for mirror?

It certainly won't clash with much C++ code out there.