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[Rubydotnet-developer] TechEd

[Tim S. <ti...@ih...>]

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'.

-- 
Tim Sutherland <ti...@ih...>
2004 President of SDKACM, the Software Developers' Klub Incorporated.
This is the University of Auckland ACM Student Chapter and is AUSA affiliated.
See http://www.sdkacm.com/ for information and resources.

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'.