[IronPython] Similarity with builtin types

[Dino Viehland]

As far as extension methods go - and just extension methods - we may at some point in time support them.  We won't ever support Ruby's mutation of everything under the sun including built-in types simply because that's not something CPython supports.

The tricky part w/ the extension methods is doing it in a way which is per-module instead of at a global scope.  In Ruby so much code mutates object that it's not really a big deal to add in some more mutation of types across the system.  But w/ Python these sort of changes have always been more closely scoped - for example look at from __future__ import ... which effects only the current module.  Another example is our own "import clr" which makes .NET attributes available on the built-in types.

I suspect what we'll end up doing is something like:

clr.LoadClrExtensions(namespace)

So it'd end up looking like:

import System
Import clr
clr.AddReference(System.Linq)


I do want to do something to continue to push LINQ forward for 2.7 and maybe this will be it if I can get it in...  Tomas added the metadata reader which we can use to efficiently get the extension methods and I think I might have an idea on how to efficiently share the extension methods across modules.

So I guess the question now would be does that look like a reasonable way to load extension methods?


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What's the point? Is there any plans to support extension methods, something like IronRuby's using_clr_extensions? With immutable types it cannot be done, am I right?
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