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Programming in the .NET Environment
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Programming in the .NET Environment

by Damien Watkins, Mark Hammond, Brad Abrams
November 2002
Intermediate to advanced
560 pages
11h 16m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Types in Mondrian

The Mondrian design tackles the mismatch between traditional functional language type systems and that of the CLR by identifying ways of mapping the former onto the later. A syntax has been defined that looks familiar to the object-oriented CLR programmer, so that task of interlanguage working is simplified.

In the following discussions, we visualize CLR code fragments by using C#. Although using CLR Intermediate Language (IL) would be more language-neutral, C# is far easier to read yet still follows the CLR model closely.

Primitive Types

Primitive types appear in all languages in much the same way, and Mondrian is no different. Unusually for a functional language, Mondrian directly supports strings through the CLR primitive ...

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