Hi everyone, I was watching yesterday's John Lam's Lang.NET presentation on IronRuby (Great presentation, btw, really enjoyed it), and it was pretty informative (to me, at least). Besides that, I've been looking at the IronRuby and DLR code trying to become more familiar with how everything fits together (haven't tried my hand yet at extending the libraries because I'm honestly a ruby newbie) and had a couple of questions. I hope they're not too stupid :)
The first one is related to RubySites. On the presentation, John shows how the shared DynamicSites in RubySites are used, for example, to ask if a given object/class supports a method and invoke it if it it does. The example in the presentation was to_int() for converting an object to an integer value, btw. What I didn't see John mention very explicitly is where/how those shared DynamicSites get initialized so that they point to the right places (maybe it's dumb question and I'm just not getting it still!). The second question was not directly influenced by the presentation, and it's basically if someone would care to explain a bit better how Ruby obtains the corresponding RubyClass instance for an object. I understand the basic mechanism at the code level, but some points I'm not too sure about: - What exactly is the criteria for deciding whether a given class is a singleton or not? I see this is brought up throughout the code, but isn't very clear to me yet (and it might be a rubyism I'm not aware of). - What's the relationship between what goes around a RubyClass for a given type (in the case of .net objects) and the whole InstanceData business? Thanks! -- Tomas Restrepo http://www.winterdom.com/weblog/ _______________________________________________ Ironruby-core mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ironruby-core
