Some comments on by Inside C# post
Recently I posted about the magic
the C# compiler is doing… I got some good
comments.
Patrick Steele – points to some similar work he
did in VB… very cool.
Kelly Summerlin, I
have pushed in the past for the compilers\IDEs to make better use of the
FlagsAttribute, I think there is a lot they could do. I’ll raise it again now that I have a
customer asking as well ;-)
Blake Isn’t sure my statement about Enums have
the base class System.Enum is right… Well… the metadata don’t lie…Check it out
in ILDASM yourself. Some of the
confusion in the C# and CLI specs are
likely the difference between boxed and unboxed value types. Unboxed value types technically don’t
have any base class.
John Tobler – points out Lutz’s great
work on Reflector… Oh yes, I know it. Lutz was just in my office the
other day talking about the fun he is having with it…. Great tool, very helpful
in understanding the platform. BTW,
you should ask Lutz about the cool tool he is working on for MS, a little
different than Reflector, but very jazzy! (Oh, he is likely to pull a Scoble on
you and not talk about it until after the PDC in Oct, but don’t hurt to
ask.)