On Wed, 29 Mar 2006, Jonathan Pryor wrote:
On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 13:02 +0300, Tomi Valkeinen wrote:
- More support for dynamic languages. Perhaps there's an unsafe way (read:
you have to know what you are doing) to unload types. Or perhaps a
modified mcs could generate code for dynamic methods. Or something else I
haven't thought about =).
What do you have in mind, exactly?
.NET 2.0 added System.Reflection.Emit.DynamicMethod, largely to target
dynamic languages such as IronPython. It provides access to an
ILGenerator for a method, and the DynamicMethod + IL + assembly language
is garbage collected in the usual fashion (instead of being tied to an
Assembly, thus necessitating an AppDomain unload to free the memory).
Given IronPython is Microsoft's dynamic-language testbed, and it's
running rather nicely under .NET, I'm not sure how much more needs to be
added to better support dynamic languages...
Hi,
Yes, DynamicMethod is quite a nice feature, and IronPython is a great
tool, I've been using them both.
But DynamicMethods have their downside, as they are, in a sense, just
plain global static functions. You lose the class structure etc.
I imagine that unloading a type is possible, but it's very hard to ensure
that no one will use that unloaded type. But if I implement a framework
that handles the type loading and unloading, I could live with the fact
that if the core framework bugs, the application will crash.
I think the IronPython guys have problems because of DynamicMethods.
DynamicMethods are very good for helper functions, like complied regexp
parser, but using them to implement a full object oriented language is not
that simple. Of course DynamicMethods are much better than what we had in
.Net 1.1 (ie. nothing =).
Also, I don't like python very much, and I'd like the language to be
strictly typed. What I would like is a C# with type unloading.
Tomi
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