Static Reflection in Scala

Hi  All, I have been trying to achieve the following in scala for quite 
sometime now, but was not able to do so.  I am looking for a way to pass 
the name of a val inside a case class along with its type to another 
method. Below is an example:

case class Person(name:String, age:Int)

object Sample{
     def apply[T]={}
     def set(???) = ???
}


I would like the set method to be used like
Sample[Person].set(p => p.name = "random name") or simply 
Sample[Person].set(_.name="random name")

The above ideally wont work because I am trying to re assign to a val. But 
Would like to have something like this. I need to capture the name of the 
val, type of the val inside the set method and would want the compiler to 
do a type check when the above method is invoked. 

In C#, We have the expression API which helps in static compile time 
reflection which will allow you to define methods like above. How do I 
accomplish the above in scala?


Thanks
Aravindh.S

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