[IronPython] Mixing Languages with the DLR

[Michael Foord]

Jimmy Schementi wrote:
> I know this works between Jscript and Python. Ruby doesn’t yet play by 
> the rules for method lookup. Fire up dlrconsole and see for yourself:

Ok - something for us to watch. Allowing users to script Resolver One 
spreadsheets with Ruby could be fun.

Michael
http://www.ironpythoninaction.com

>
> http://dynamicsilverlight.net/see/dlrconsole
>
> js> function foo() {
> js| return 42
> js| }
> py> a = foo()
> py> a
> 42.0
> js> a
> 42.0
>
> How it works? I believe it’s something to do with sharing scopes, but 
> you can take a look @ 
> http://dynamicsilverlight.net/see/dlrconsole.zip. Everything is in 
> /app/app.py
>
> John, any idea when Ruby will play nicely with other languages?
>
> ~Jimmy
>
> On 3/30/08 8:25 AM, "Michael Foord" <fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk> wrote:
>
>     Hello all,
>
>     A quick question on mixing languages with the DLR. If we have an
>     execution scope that we have executed code in - can we execute
>     code from
>     another language in the same scope?
>
>     If this is trivially easy (just use a different engine to execute the
>     code in the same scope) then we could make Resolver One scriptable in
>     the DLR language of your choosing... (Why anyone would want to use
>     anything other than Python I don't know).
>
>     Michael
>     http://www.ironpythoninaction.com
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