From: Pit Capitain <pit@...>
Date: 2005-11-25T04:06:46+09:00
Subject: Re: Legal symbol names and generics

John Lam schrieb:
> The problem here is that ChannelFactory is a CLR generic type, which is
> specialized at run-time. So I'm really looking for a way to pass type
> parameter(s) to the type at construction time. So while I like your first
> example, I'm not sure how I could extend it to cover an arbitrary number of
> type parameters.
> 
> Here's a simple example (again with the illegal angle bracket syntax):
> 
> dict = Dictionary<int, string>.new

As Gary already suggested, I'd use a [] method:

   def Dictionary.[]( *types )
     # return appropriate class
   end

Then you can call it like

   dict = Dictionary[Integer, String].new

Regards,
Pit