An Issue with CLR Delegates

Ruby IronRuby
1

Hi,

Today I’m playing with CLR delegates :slight_smile:

I’ve run into a strange behavior.

Take a look at the next C# block:

public class Printer
{
public delegate void PrintValue(string value);
}

Assuming the above is the content of assembly.dll, take a look at the
next IR console output:

require “assembly.dll”
=> true
p = Printer::PrintValue.new { |x| puts x }
=> Printer+PrintValue
p(“dsfs”)
“dsfs”
=> nil
d = Printer::PrintValue.new { |x| puts x }
=> Printer+PrintValue
d(“dsfd”)
:0: undefined method `d’ for main:Object (NoMethodError)

Why does p work and d doesn’t?

BTW, I see that delegates are converted to something called LightLambda.
What is that?

Many thanks!
Shay.

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2

Looks like some odd caching or invalidation. Please file a bug on
Codeplex.

JD

…there is no try

3

This is actually correct behavior.

p(“dsfs”) calls Kernel#p with parameter “dsfs”
d(“dsfs”) attempts to call method “d”, which doesn’t exist.

You need to do p.invoke(“dsfs”) and d.invoke(“dsfs”) to invoke the
delegates.

Tomas

4

Well, it doesn’t take much to see these things right away. Just to
implement a Ruby VM :slight_smile:

Tomas

5

lol!

Brilliant discovery Tomas!

Thanks!

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