A&O Olexandr Melnyk 2009-06-29: PL/Mono

[Olexandr Melnyk]

My apologies for not very confidently completing the planned tasks. The past two weeks in the university were tough because of the exams.

Achievements:

 - [NOT DONE] allow function overloading (analyze function signature, rather than its name alone);
 - [PARTIALLY DONE*] add support for output and input-output function arguments;

 - [PARTIALLY DONE**] add string support and handle character sets properly.

Objectives:

 - refactor code which relies on the fact that the method has a specific signature;

 - allow function overloading (analyze function signature, rather than its name alone);

 - support string encodings other than UTF8.

Love:

 - Andrew Gierth (RhodiumToad) for clarifying how to deal with strings and in/out arguments;

 - all folks from #mono, who tried to explain me how GC controls object scope in unmanaged code.

Note *: only input-output arguments work so far (on a hard-coded example).

Note **: strings work properly only when the server encoding is set to UTF8.

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Sincerely yours,
Olexandr Melnyk
http://omelnyk.net/