Ayende @ Rahienhttp://ayende.comAyende @ RahienCopyright (C) Ayende Rahien 2004 - 2021 (c) 202660Stefan Wenig commented on If it walks like a duck and it quacks like a duckArne, I believe there is some COM-interop magic in C# that handles duck typing, it might be possible to abuse it in order to target IQuackFu or the DLR. But then again, this magic might be best forgotten... Stefan http://ayende.com/3064/if-it-walks-like-a-duck-and-it-quacks-like-a-duck#comment8http://ayende.com/3064/if-it-walks-like-a-duck-and-it-quacks-like-a-duck#comment8Fri, 28 Dec 2007 11:07:33 GMTArne Claassen commented on If it walks like a duck and it quacks like a duckI do wish IQuackFu or its equivalent were supported in C#. It seems like a relatively simple compiler modification and even Intellisense support for it (i.e. just not complain on any call for a IQuckFu implementer) doesn't seem too hard. http://ayende.com/3064/if-it-walks-like-a-duck-and-it-quacks-like-a-duck#comment7http://ayende.com/3064/if-it-walks-like-a-duck-and-it-quacks-like-a-duck#comment7Sat, 22 Dec 2007 16:08:33 GMTAyende Rahien commented on If it walks like a duck and it quacks like a duckjr76, Well, because it quacks like a duck and to use it you have to know some Boo Fu fighting. I don't think that this is a reasonable amount of levity in a language is to be discourage. http://ayende.com/3064/if-it-walks-like-a-duck-and-it-quacks-like-a-duck#comment6http://ayende.com/3064/if-it-walks-like-a-duck-and-it-quacks-like-a-duck#comment6Fri, 21 Dec 2007 18:53:05 GMTjr76 commented on If it walks like a duck and it quacks like a duckI love the "method missing" concept, but why did boo decide to name the interface "IQuackFu"? I may just be boringly conservative, but I think that silly names tend to work against a language being taken seriously, and although I haven't actually used boo, from what I've read on your blog I would love to see it gain wider acceptance. http://ayende.com/3064/if-it-walks-like-a-duck-and-it-quacks-like-a-duck#comment5http://ayende.com/3064/if-it-walks-like-a-duck-and-it-quacks-like-a-duck#comment5Fri, 21 Dec 2007 18:47:42 GMTAyende Rahien commented on If it walks like a duck and it quacks like a duckStefan, Sorry, I was wrong. Yes, it looks like it does the same thing. http://ayende.com/3064/if-it-walks-like-a-duck-and-it-quacks-like-a-duck#comment4http://ayende.com/3064/if-it-walks-like-a-duck-and-it-quacks-like-a-duck#comment4Fri, 21 Dec 2007 16:17:13 GMTStefan Wenig commented on If it walks like a duck and it quacks like a duckSo how would Ruby code call a Python method if there was no common interface for dynamic calls? Just browsed through Jim Hugunin's blog, I think IDynamicObject is it: http://blogs.msdn.com/hugunin http://ayende.com/3064/if-it-walks-like-a-duck-and-it-quacks-like-a-duck#comment3http://ayende.com/3064/if-it-walks-like-a-duck-and-it-quacks-like-a-duck#comment3Fri, 21 Dec 2007 12:53:53 GMTAyende Rahien commented on If it walks like a duck and it quacks like a duckStefan, I highly doubt that it would. The DLR is just the platform, the policy, the part that decide how to do the method dispatch, is in the language hands. http://ayende.com/3064/if-it-walks-like-a-duck-and-it-quacks-like-a-duck#comment2http://ayende.com/3064/if-it-walks-like-a-duck-and-it-quacks-like-a-duck#comment2Fri, 21 Dec 2007 12:45:23 GMTStefan Wenig commented on If it walks like a duck and it quacks like a duckI haven't checked, but I'd be surprised if the DLR would not already support such a mechanism ("already" is a bit much for a prerelease that has its design changed on a daily basis, but you get the idea. but still, that would give you cross-langugage capabilities, while IQuackFu would not) http://ayende.com/3064/if-it-walks-like-a-duck-and-it-quacks-like-a-duck#comment1http://ayende.com/3064/if-it-walks-like-a-duck-and-it-quacks-like-a-duck#comment1Fri, 21 Dec 2007 08:54:46 GMT