Not really an answer, but more of a related topic: have you tried out the Silverlight 1.1 alpha (not the go-live beta), and then the DLRConsole sample? One dynamic aspect seen there which you don't mention is dynamism in the language-of-the-moment: you can switch from Python to JScript mid-session and still operate in the same context.
________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Jeffrey Sax Sent: Tue 5/1/2007 6:06 PM To: 'Discussion of IronPython' Subject: [IronPython] DLR and VS-Interactive This is more a DLR than an IronPython question. There are two 'dynamic' aspects that are covered by the DLR extension to the CLR. One is runtime support for efficient dynamic typing. The other is the hosting side: console interface, integration with Visual Studio, etc. These are useful for other (non-dynamic) languages as well. Case in point: F# has an interactive console in Visual Studio, but is compiled and statically typed. This second aspect looks more like an extension of the Visual Studio SDK, if it wasn't taken straight from the VS Integration samples from the VS SDK. In other words: my impression is that the current DLR is made up of two separable parts: 1. The actual DLR, which enables efficient dynamic typing on the CLR. 2. "VS-Interactive", a set of extensions to the Visual Studio SDK that turn Visual Studio into an interactive development environment. Is this where the refactoring is headed? Jeffrey Sax Extreme Optimization _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ironpython.com/listinfo.cgi/users-ironpython.com _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ironpython.com/listinfo.cgi/users-ironpython.com
