Re: [Rubydotnet-developer] TechEd

[Thomas S. <th...@th...>]

Sounds excellent! In other good news it appears that Jim Hugunin, the
IronPython guy, has been hired by Microsoft to continue his work on
IronPython and on the CLS/CLR/CTS-and-so-on with emphasis on it's use as
a platform for execution of dynamic languages.

br,

Thomas

On Tue, 2004-08-03 at 10:35, Tim Sutherland wrote:
> Hi guys,
> 
> Microsoft are running their "TechEd" conference in Auckland, NZ (where I
> live) this week.
> 
> I managed to beg my way into a session to do with 'low-level CLR stuff'.
> They mentioned that they're considering adding a dynamic dispatch
> instruction to IL to aid the compilation of dynamic languages for their
> platform. That would be useful for a Ruby->IL compiler.
> 
> Hopefully this would mean that if some C# code calls a method on a type
> that has been declared 'dynamic' and the method has not already
> been declared, the C# compiler will use 'dynamic_call'.