[Mono-devel-list] casting method to delegates compiles

[Todd Berman]

Matthias Kempka wrote:
> Duncan Mak wrote:
> 
>> By default, we enable 2.0 features in mcs (those that are implemented).
> 
> 
> Well, I'm not into your design process, but up to now I can't come to 
> like this. As stupid C# programming user I somehow expect code that 
> compiles at one compiler to compile with every C# compiler, that is 
> because my teacher told me C# compilers only can call itself so if they 
> compile *exactly* the language that was specified in the ECMA.

This feature is in the ECMA, your MS.NET compiler is too old to compile 
it properly, if you were to use the compiler from the whidbey beta stuff 
it would compile fine.

Duncan explained exactly how to write the code so that a C# 1.0 compiler 
will compile it perfectly fine.

> 
> While using mcs I would be way happier knowing that I now am programming 
> C# version x.y and that any other compiler that compiles C# version x.y 
> will compile my program. (isn't that the idea of standardisation?)
> The way I see it now is dialects coming up.

This has nothing to do with dialects, and everything to do with evolving 
standards. The standard is changing, we change with it, c'est la vie.

--Todd

> 
> Matthias
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