[Mono-list] Mixing languages within

[Nigel Benns]

Of course, If you want to get really nuts :P,
you should probably be able to create a compiler that has plugins from
different languages and do something like this....

namespace {

   language C-Sharp {


   }

   language VisualBasic {



   }

}

I mean... but then you would be really creating a new language anyway...
Inless you could find out a way to pass the specific language functions to
the appropriate compiler...

I mean thats if you just want to be really crazy!!! :)

>
>> I don't know what the .Net standard would have to
>> say about this....
>>
>> I would like to mix C# and (say) Hypothetical String
>> Processing Language
>> (HSPL) and (say) Hypothetical Data Processing
>> Language (HDPL) within the
>> same source code file. e.g.
>>
> <snip>
>> Is this a crazy idea?
>>
>
> I think so.  I'm not sure what someone else might say,
> but my problem with this is that every compiler would
> have to know about every other compiler and there
> would have to be some standard for how to shift around
> from one compiler to the next and pass type / symbol
> information and IL code around as well.
>
> I don't think it's feasible, and I'm pretty sure it's
> not even close to being supported by the standard.  I
> doubt it's prohibited directly by the standard
> (because, after all, you could argue that this
> wouldn't be C#, but some variant of C# and so wouldn't
> be bound by the standard at all), but I surely
> wouldn't want to try to build the compiler for it.
>
> Kelly
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