Forum: IronRuby Re: Basic interoperability question

Require 'mscorlib' is not as essential anymore. If you run ir -e "puts 
System::String.class" it will wolrk just fine. I still use require 
'mscorlib' in my scripts tlo signal to other programmers that this scrpt 
will use .NET interop, but I don't think it is needed.

I'll let Tomas answer the second part, and clarify my answer if needed.

JD

....there is no try
Sent from my phone. Please excuse typos and txtspk.

As for #2: it doesn't work yet. instance_methods currently only includes 
Ruby methods and methods that were already called (are cached) but it 
should indeed include names of all instance CLR members.

Tomas

Should require 'mscorlib' not be needed though? Does the first reference 
to "System" do this automatically? JRuby requires that you do "require 
'java'" to get at any Java classes, and I'm not what the benefit to 
doing it implicitly is. IronPython also has the "import clr" 
requirement, so what to people thing about the lack of a signal as to 
whether a IronRuby script uses .NET types or not?

Tomas, can you elaborate on why this is technically not needed anymore?