Get a symbol by its owner and its name

Is there a way to get a symbol if I know its owner and its name?

Positive answer will be very useful for importers (that provide
bijection between universes, e.g. between reflective mirror and
reflective compiler).

Currently importers create a new symbol for every symbol they haven't
seen yet. This means that certain symbols can be created multiple
times - once inside their own universe and once again during an import
from a universe that already has the same symbol.

Re: Get a symbol by its owner and its name

Added by extempore on 2012-02-09, 17:41


On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 5:27 AM, Eugene Burmako <eugene [dot] burmako [at] epfl [dot] ch> wrote:
Is there a way to get a symbol if I know its owner and its name?

Much of the time this would be owner.info.member(name).  Not always.  And owner and name doesn't uniquely identify a symbol, most obviously in the case of an overloaded method.

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