Re: [DotGNU]Starting of the swigging of pnet

[Rhys Weatherley]

On Sunday 16 March 2003 08:19 pm, James Michael DuPont wrote:

> The reason why I started on this was to help implement reflection.emit.
> When the ILAsm code is wrapped in internal calls, and made available
> via static linking to the C#, it can be used to implement the
> Reflection.Emit code.

Which is the wrong approach.  Reflection.Emit should be implemented using 
internalcalls direct to the underlying engine, in the same style as the 
existing System.Reflection interface.  All of the necessary infrastructure is 
already in place - it just needs to be hooked through.

Swig will *not* help you implement Reflection.Emit.  It will instead introduce 
huge amounts of unnecessary complexity and bloat.  Complexity that I will 
have no choice but to reject if it turns up in the patch queue.

*sigh*  Solve the actual problem Michael, not what you want the problem to be.

Cheers,

Rhys.