Comments on: What makes Boo great?

By: Tore Vestues blogs » The Boo extensibility tutorials

Tore Vestues blogs » The Boo extensibility tutorials — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 07:32:39 +0000

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By: Tore Vestues blogs » Boo AstAttributes explained

Tore Vestues blogs » Boo AstAttributes explained — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 22:33:26 +0000

[...] of the presentations I’ve held on Boo, and that I have also mentioned in this blog earlier (What makes boo great): the NotifyPropertyChanged-attribute. I wrote this attribute about half a year ago, and it really [...]

By: Tore Vestues

Tore Vestues — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 09:30:39 +0000

Hi Peter.

I’m happy my INotifyPropertyChanged example interested you. To answer your questions:

1) You do not change the compiler as is, you create compiler extensions, which is what makes Boo great. The INotifyPropertyChanged “extension”, is just a class that I created that the compiler finds at compile time and runs it. It runs during the compile process, and the output is just a normal assembly.

2) A very good idea. As I’ve been working with Boo, I’ve noticed that there are almost no good tutorials about compiler extensions. The way I’ve learned it is basically by reading code in the Boo compiler. That is quite a slow process. So I plan to help the community with some tutorials. I will make a step-by-step example of this my first priority. I will notify you when I’m done

.Tore

By: Peter Morris

Peter Morris — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 08:25:59 +0000

I’ve read a few Boo docs since yesterday because I am particularly interested in the INotifyPropertyChanged example you showed. I have some questions

01: Do you need to modify the compiler to get this to work, or can I just create an assembly?

02: Do you plan to write a step-by-step example of how you achieved this, I think that would be the easiest way for me (and others) to see how you do it.

PS: I hope I get an email notification of a reply, because I wont notice otherwise