* Jiří Zárevúcky wrote, On 26/06/09 12:28: > Ah, another one of the anti-mono guys. Sigh... >
Ah, another one of those guys who sees anti-mono guys everywhere. > Let me tell you, that from the sole principle of how Vala works, it > will never be possible to convert C# code in a mechanistic fashion. > Of course it will, it just won't compile or run. > You could maybe try creating some sort of automatic converter, which > wouldn't work anyway, as it would result in a lot of bugs, inferior > performance and (in better case) memory leaks. You could try this too. I think I'll wait to see if there is a need. > Just the possibility of > "Vala being able to compile C# code" is so ridiculous I wonder who > came up with that. > I've never heard the idea suggested, and I didn't suggest it. It seems you are the one who came up with it. I wish you had read my message. In it I acknowledged some of these points. I think you read the message you thought I had written. But there will be some language features of C# which are not within the vala philosphy or language direction but which might be supported and thus making some migration easier; I merely suggest keeping an open eye for these. I don't expect any mechanistically converted C# to "compile and work" with Vala, but it could be valid vala, with the parts that need re-working annotated. > Anyway. Why hating Mono? I don't hate mono (although I prefer Vala). I wrote a nice mono application for controlling my USB experimenter board. > Mono is a great software platform and people > will use it no matter what MS-haters say about it. Good for them. (And me, I'm one of them). > Get over it people. > Get over what? I don't understand your attitude in this response! I merely advocated keeping a weather eye open in case we could help a migration from mono. I don't advocate that we actually DO anything. Sam > 2009/6/26 Sam Liddicott <s...@liddicott.com>: > >> It may be prudent to keep a weather eye open for the removal of mono on >> the horizon. >> >> Vala is excellent, and I prefer it to mono; however it may become >> pricelessly important that mono code can be converted to vala in a >> mechanistic fashion. >> I'm talking about language features, not library dependencies and linkages. >> >> Sure, we don't want Vala spoiling by mono, and I'm not advocating the >> vala be able to compile C# code; I'm not advocating anything specific... >> >> ..just to keep a weather eye open... >> >> [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/keep_a_weather_eye_open] >> >> Sam >> _______________________________________________ >> Vala-list mailing list >> Vala-list@gnome.org >> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/vala-list >> >> _______________________________________________ Vala-list mailing list Vala-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/vala-list
