>We won’t ever support Ruby’s mutation of everything under the sun including built-in types simply because that’s not something CPython supports.
With clr.LoadClrExtensions using C# extension methods we can extend builtin types, public string DoSomething(this string str) ... so why not just allow use ironpython for this? String.DoSomething = ... 2010/8/9 Dino Viehland <di...@microsoft.com> > As far as extension methods go – and just extension methods – we may at > some point in time support them. We won’t ever support Ruby’s mutation of > everything under the sun including built-in types simply because that’s not > something CPython supports. > > > > The tricky part w/ the extension methods is doing it in a way which is > per-module instead of at a global scope. In Ruby so much code mutates > object that it’s not really a big deal to add in some more mutation of types > across the system. But w/ Python these sort of changes have always been > more closely scoped – for example look at from __future__ import … which > effects only the current module. Another example is our own “import clr” > which makes .NET attributes available on the built-in types. > > > > I suspect what we’ll end up doing is something like: > > > > clr.LoadClrExtensions(namespace) > > > > So it’d end up looking like: > > > > import System > > Import clr > > clr.AddReference(System.Linq) > > > > > > I do want to do something to continue to push LINQ forward for 2.7 and > maybe this will be it if I can get it in… Tomas added the metadata reader > which we can use to efficiently get the extension methods and I think I > might have an idea on how to efficiently share the extension methods across > modules. > > > > So I guess the question now would be does that look like a reasonable way > to load extension methods? > > > > > > *From:* users-boun...@lists.ironpython.com [mailto: > users-boun...@lists.ironpython.com] *On Behalf Of *mlkjih mlkjih > *Sent:* Monday, August 09, 2010 9:10 AM > *To:* users@lists.ironpython.com > *Subject:* [IronPython] Similarity with builtin types > > > > > http://ironpython.net/documentation/dotnet/dotnet.html#similarity-with-builtin-types > What's the point? Is there any plans to support extension methods, > something like IronRuby's *using_clr_extensions? With immutable types it > cannot be done, am I right?* > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > Users@lists.ironpython.com > http://lists.ironpython.com/listinfo.cgi/users-ironpython.com > >
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