Boo.Lang.Useful

Added by dholton dholton,

A todo/wish list for stuff to include in Boo.Lang.Useful.dll - a library of helper classes and functions for boo users.

All the code in Boo.Lang.Useful would be in boo, not C#.

Useful things about Boo contains documentation on members present in the assembly.

Boo.Lang.Useful.Attributes

• AsyncMethodAttribute
• DisposableAttribute
• SingletonAttribute
• Implements? - delegates implementation of an interface to a class field instance.

Boo.Lang.Useful.Macros

• fireAndForget - used to asynchronously invoke a method without having to worry to call EndMethod to clean up the asynchronous call.
• performTransaction - in the examples folder
• timeIt - used to time how long a section of code takes.
• with - in the examples folder included with boo

Compiler Steps & Pipelines

Doc step - generates XML documentation from the docstrings in your boo code, which can be used by NDoc to generate HTML documentation.
Macro helper scripts - Anything that could help developers creating boo macros/attributes would be nice. See for example the script at the bottom of Compiler Steps, it shows how the AST is transformed after each step, in XML or boo form.
Style checker - there's a sample pipeline in the examples folder that checks the style of your boo code (like prefixing private fields with an underscore, for example)
AutoImport - in the examples folder

Helper Classes

Set Class - needs to be recoded in boo instead of C#
Boo.Dynamic? - See the bottom of the Duck Typing page for examples of python-like and other dynamic IQuackFu-based classes we could create.