The official answer is "That's up to the product team, who are assessing our designs."
I can let you know it's important to them. Of course I trust that everyone will understand when I say that while the next version of VS will contain lots of great stuff, the release schedule for the next version of VS won't be driven by generics alone.... On the whole I can't comment further than that - it's really up to the product teams. Best wishes, Don Syme Microsoft Research -----Original Message----- From: dotnetRotor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 25 April 2002 20:41 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [DOTNET-ROTOR] Changes to Rotor What is the time scale for Generics in Commercial CLR? I've herd some dates, but they are "NDA" and seemed... A long way away... -- http://www.codevoid.net Microsoft MVP > -----Original Message----- > From: Don Syme [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Posted At: 25 April 2002 19:19 > Posted To: dotnetRotor > Conversation: RE: [DOTNET-ROTOR] Changes to Rotor > Subject: Re: [DOTNET-ROTOR] Changes to Rotor > > > Hi Andrew, > > I'm pleased to be able to say that we've just arranged to > have someone work on the job of making the generics > functionality accessible in Rotor. The person will be > starting in a couple of weeks, and we aim to have something > available within a few months from then. Naturally we will > be keeping the Rotor community up-to-date as things progress. > So stay tuned! > > When we have something available we would be very interested > in getting feedback on the design and in starting cooperative > projects to look at extensions and/or performance improvements. > > As for ILX, that is, in a sense, already available for Rotor, > because it is a translation layer that works outside the > runtime infrastructure. I have developed a sample compiler > (essentially for the Caml programming > language) which targets ILX and which will be released in a week or so > for both Rotor and the .NET Framework SDK runtimes. The compiler can > also produce code for generics in Rotor once that becomes > available. See the information about F# at > http://research.microsoft.com/projects/ilx > for more details. > > > Best wishes & thanks for you interest, > > Don > > -----Original Message----- > From: Andrew Stopford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 8:40 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [DOTNET-ROTOR] Changes to Rotor > > > Hi, > > I have been looking at some the work that is being carried > out my MS research > http://research.microsoft.com/~dsyme/papers/babel01.pdf http://research.microsoft.com/~dsyme/papers/generics.pdf The research is aimed at adding features to extend C# and the CLR to support Logical languages. I am curious though, we will have to wait to see these in the .NET CLR/CLI or will we see them in Rotor first ? -- Andrew Stopford Web Programmer dabs.com plc
