Type reflection only shows public fields and methods

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Use Case

If I try reflecting on a class using the @type intrinsic, only public methods and fields are found:

class Foo {
  pub foo() {}
  bar() {}
}

let t = @type(Foo);
let cls = t.asClass()!;
log(Json.stringify(cls.methods.keys()));

["foo","onLift","onLiftType","toInflight","isConstruct","toString"]

The root reason bar isn't made available is that if a Wing library declares a method or field as private, they're meant to be hidden to consumers, so it would be an leaky abstraction if the private fields could still be uncovered via reflection. Private or hidden fields or classes are meant to be implementation details.

However, this could be overly restrictive if you're reflecting on a class that's within your own package/project. It could be nice if @type(Foo) included information about private fields/methods if the call is made in the same package as Foo, and continued to hide the fields/methods otherwise.

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