[IronPython] DLR question

[Ben Hall]

Will we ever be in a position where, for example, Rails could run on
top of Python and that level of interop?

Ben


On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 1:01 AM, Dino Viehland
<dinov at exchange.microsoft.com> wrote:
> The short answer to this is yes.  But there's a longer answer too J
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> First off, it's not like you're going to be able to do:
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> class MyPythonClass(object):
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>     def MyPythonFunc(self): pass
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>     def MyRubyFunc
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>     end
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> or anything like that.  There's also no plans to support subclassing because
> generally the type systems are just too different.  But you can monkey patch
> all you want.  So you could do:
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> class MyPythonClass(object): pass
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> then in Ruby:
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> MyPythonClass.someFunc = someProcOrBlockOrWhateverThoseRubyGuysDo
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> And you could get crazy with metaclasses or other such magic to make this
> more seamless.
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> The other part of the long answer is that this doesn't necessarily work
> today – I'm actually not sure whether it does or not today.  We're actually
> in the process of finalizing the interop protocol right now and when that's
> done and all the languages have adopted the new protocol we'll start testing
> this and ensuring we have good interop.
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> From: users-bounces at lists.ironpython.com
> [mailto:users-bounces at lists.ironpython.com] On Behalf Of Michael Stephens
> Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2008 3:44 PM
> To: Discussion of IronPython
> Subject: [IronPython] DLR question
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> I have a DLR question and was wondering if you guys knew.  We have a python
> scripting system for our application.  We would like to add iron python to
> it as well.  My question is can I define a ruby function and an iron python
> function in the same class?  That way they can write ruby functions and
> python functions and they can all be bound with the same local variables and
> class state etc.
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> Michael Stephens
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> Electrical Engineering Graduate Student
> University of Wyoming
> falcon at uwyo.edu or 89iroc at gmail.com
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