On Jan 27, 2011, at 9:52:35PM, Doug Blank wrote:
> It would be great to be able to have C# as one of the languages to use
> in this educational environment, but until it can address functions
> and classes, it will be a second-class citizen. Although, it will be a
> nice step for students to be able to take to see a fully-typed,
> explicit language---even as it is interpreted.
>
> If any one has suggestions about using C# in the educational
> environment, please let me know.
>
> -Doug
If you're willing to fake it, you can define functions as lambdas. It'll be ~=
to defining them in a real sense.
Try something like this:
Action<T> printMe = t => Console.WriteLine (t);
or in the more complex case (retrieving some content from a webserver that
always returns GZip [yes, I did run into this while exploring some services via
the REPL]):
Func<string, string> doRequestWithPayload = payload => {
var wc = new WebClient ();
var data = wc.UploadData ("http://url:port/service";, "POST",
Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes (payload));
return new StreamReader (new GZipStream (new MemoryStream
(data), CompressionMode.Decompress)).ReadToEnd ();
}
It works perfectly well in the interpreter. It's not quite a real function
definition, but it's close enough for most purposes. Classes on the other hand
are a no-go.
—Bojan
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