What is the time scale for Generics in Commercial CLR? I've herd some dates, but they are "NDA" and seemed... A long way away...
-- http://www.codevoid.net Microsoft MVP > -----Original Message----- > From: Don Syme [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Posted At: 25 April 2002 19:19 > Posted To: dotnetRotor > Conversation: RE: [DOTNET-ROTOR] Changes to Rotor > Subject: Re: [DOTNET-ROTOR] Changes to Rotor > > > Hi Andrew, > > I'm pleased to be able to say that we've just arranged to > have someone work on the job of making the generics > functionality accessible in Rotor. The person will be > starting in a couple of weeks, and we aim to have something > available within a few months from then. Naturally we will > be keeping the Rotor community up-to-date as things progress. > So stay tuned! > > When we have something available we would be very interested > in getting feedback on the design and in starting cooperative > projects to look at extensions and/or performance improvements. > > As for ILX, that is, in a sense, already available for Rotor, > because it is a translation layer that works outside the > runtime infrastructure. I have developed a sample compiler > (essentially for the Caml programming > language) which targets ILX and which will be released in a week or so > for both Rotor and the .NET Framework SDK runtimes. The compiler can > also produce code for generics in Rotor once that becomes > available. See the information about F# at > http://research.microsoft.com/projects/ilx > for more details. > > > Best wishes & thanks for you interest, > > Don > > -----Original Message----- > From: Andrew Stopford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 8:40 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [DOTNET-ROTOR] Changes to Rotor > > > Hi, > > I have been looking at some the work that is being carried > out my MS research > http://research.microsoft.com/~dsyme/papers/babel01.pdf http://research.microsoft.com/~dsyme/papers/generics.pdf The research is aimed at adding features to extend C# and the CLR to support Logical languages. I am curious though, we will have to wait to see these in the .NET CLR/CLI or will we see them in Rotor first ? -- Andrew Stopford Web Programmer dabs.com plc
