I totally agree =) Unfortuantely, IronRuby on Rails is the high priority task for John Lam and his merry men for the next month or two, but language interop hopefully won't be too long after.
> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:users- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Foord > Sent: Monday, March 31, 2008 2:22 PM > To: Discussion of IronPython > Subject: Re: [IronPython] Mixing Languages with the DLR > > Jimmy Schementi wrote: > > I know this works between Jscript and Python. Ruby doesn't yet play > by > > the rules for method lookup. Fire up dlrconsole and see for yourself: > > Ok - something for us to watch. Allowing users to script Resolver One > spreadsheets with Ruby could be fun. > > Michael > http://www.ironpythoninaction.com > > > > > http://dynamicsilverlight.net/see/dlrconsole > > > > js> function foo() { > > js| return 42 > > js| } > > py> a = foo() > > py> a > > 42.0 > > js> a > > 42.0 > > > > How it works? I believe it's something to do with sharing scopes, but > > you can take a look @ > > http://dynamicsilverlight.net/see/dlrconsole.zip. Everything is in > > /app/app.py > > > > John, any idea when Ruby will play nicely with other languages? > > > > ~Jimmy > > > > On 3/30/08 8:25 AM, "Michael Foord" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > Hello all, > > > > A quick question on mixing languages with the DLR. If we have an > > execution scope that we have executed code in - can we execute > > code from > > another language in the same scope? > > > > If this is trivially easy (just use a different engine to execute > the > > code in the same scope) then we could make Resolver One > scriptable in > > the DLR language of your choosing... (Why anyone would want to > use > > anything other than Python I don't know). > > > > Michael > > http://www.ironpythoninaction.com > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
