With support for polymorphism (or type erasure on pointers to
member functions) being absent in the ARTIQ compiler, code
generation is vital to be able to implement abstractions that
work with user-provided lists/trees of objects with uniform
interfaces (e.g. a common base class, or duck typing), but
different concrete types.
@kernel_from_string has been in production use for exactly
this use case in Oxford for the better part of a year now
(various places in ndscan).
GitHub: Fixes#1089.
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