From: John Lam <drjflam@...>
Date: 2005-11-25T04:05:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Legal symbol names and generics

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Yes - this is by far the most straightforward way of making this happen.
While I don't like "magic method names" like .specialize(), I really don't
think there's a way of hacking type information into Ruby's syntax :( And I
need to preserve using [] as well ...

I'll see what I can't do to hack these ideas into the rewrite of my bridge.

Cheers,
-John
http://www.iunknown.com


On 11/24/05, Florian Gro=DF <florgro@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> John Lam wrote:
>
> > channel =3D ChannelFactory[IOutputChannel].new('
> > http://www.flickr.com/services/soap/').CreateChannel<
> http://www.flickr.com/services/soap/%27%29.CreateChannel>
> >
> > This does, however clash with static indexers in the CLR since I would
> like
> > to preserve the [] indexer semantics in the bridge ... thoughts?
>
> Use a method .fetch for indexers on classes?
>
> Or use ChannelFactory.specialize(IOutputChannel) or something similar.
>
>
>

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