On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 12:54 PM, Jimmy Schementi <jscheme...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Tomas means you can write this:
>
>> public static string ExpectsString(string val) {
>> return val;
>> }
>
>
> And call it from Ruby with a Ruby string:
>
> expects_string "Foo"
Yes, indeed, that works fine. Thanks! So, the DLR languages all behave
properly with all types, even with nullable and default values ---if
you name your classes correctly. Another point I discovered was that I
had to name my outer class with upper case letters, or else IronRuby
couldn't access it.
Any other gotchas or time savers for non-DLR languages? (I wish the
DLR group could help the F# group... they don't even have an eval,
except for running the entire fsi.exe in a subprocess... wouldn't that
be nice if they used a DLR environment...)
-Doug
> ~Jimmy
>
>
> On Apr 4, 2011, at 12:21 PM, Doug Blank <doug.bl...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 11:52 AM, Tomas Matousek
>> <tomas.matou...@microsoft.com> wrote:
>>> Re: 1.
>>>
>>> MutableString is convertible to String, so why would you need an object
>>> parameter?
>>
>> Do you mean that one could write:
>>
>> public static string expects_string(MutableString val) {
>> return (val as String);
>> }
>>
>> I wrote:
>>
>> public static string expects_string(object val) {
>> return val.ToString();
>> }
>>
>> because that would work for all languages, and you could pass in an
>> IronPython or F# string it it would work just as well. Or did you mean
>> something else?
>>
>> -Doug
>>
>>> Tomas
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: users-boun...@lists.ironpython.com
>>> [mailto:users-boun...@lists.ironpython.com] On Behalf Of Doug Blank
>>> Sent: Monday, April 04, 2011 8:25 AM
>>> To: Discussion of IronPython
>>> Subject: [IronPython] Writing cross-language libraries that appear native
>>>
>>> I'm working on writing C# libraries which can be imported by a variety of
>>> .NET languages, DLR and otherwise, which appear native to the language
>>> importing them.
>>>
>>> For example, writing a C# function that can be used naturally in IronPython
>>> as if it were written in Python, IronRuby as if it were written in Ruby,
>>> and F# as if it were written in F#, etc.
>>>
>>> I've encountered some gotchas that I thought I'd share, and looking for any
>>> other points of advice in writing cross-language libraries.
>>>
>>> 1. IronRuby strings aren't really strings, so you need to pass them in as
>>> an object, and call .ToString().
>>>
>>> public static string expects_string(object val) {
>>> return val.ToString();
>>> }
>>>
>>> 2. F# 2.0 doesn't seem to automatically convert a type to the associated
>>> nullable type, so avoid nullable types as parameters.
>>>
>>> // AVOID:
>>> public static double? expects_nullable(double? var1=null) {
>>> return var1;
>>> }
>>>
>>> // BETTER:
>>> public static double? expects_nullable() {
>>> return null;
>>> }
>>> public static double expects_nullable(double var1) {
>>> return var1;
>>> }
>>>
>>> 3. IronPython and IronRuby lists and dictionaries implement IList and
>>> IDictionary, so no problem with those.
>>>
>>> public static IDictionary<object,object> make_dict(object val) {
>>> if (val as IDictionary<object,object> != null) {
>>> return ((IDictionary<object,object>)val);
>>> } else
>>> throw new System.ArgumentException("object is not a dictionary");
>>> }
>>>
>>> public static IList<object> make_list(object val) {
>>> if (val as IList<object> != null) {
>>> return ((IList<object>)val);
>>> } else
>>> throw new System.ArgumentException("object is not a list");
>>> }
>>>
>>> Any other suggestions?
>>>
>>> -Doug
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