Greg Akins:

> Thanks for the quick response!!  The more I look into this, the more
> amazed I am by the amount of work and talent that must have gone into
> Microsoft.Scripting and IronRuby

Thanks!

> >  There are expression trees. You generate an expression tree and we
> either transform them into IL or interpret them depending on the
> context.
>
> When you say "we" do you mean the IronRuby code, or
> Microsoft.Scripting?

Microsoft.Scripting.

> Can you give me a starting class to look into to see how this is done?
>  I'm still not sure whether we're talking about creating an expression
> tree based on the syntax of whatever language is being interpreted,
> and then walking the tree to transform/interpret

Best place to look for this info is Martin Maly's blog about DLR - 
http://blogs.msdn.com/mmaly

Check out his ToyScript examples - they are much better to learn from since a 
real language contains far more ... um ... crap :)

Thanks,
-John

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