July 2005 Entries
So, I am normally a gigantic cynic, but I can't help be excited about this! Listened to the result coming in on Radio 5 Live and was amazed when London was anounced. I cant help but feel slightly sorry for Jacques Chiraq - he now has to walk in to the G8 conference and face the full glare of Blair's grin turned up to 11. Anyway - 2012 - The little un will be 8, which should be old enough to enjoy it. Its the kind of thing which doesnt come around very often so I have to promise myself now I'll get...
Carl Franklin wrote , amongst lots of other stuff, that Partial Classes may enable code gen. I would argue that all we need for good code gen is inheritance, and that Partial Classes are an all-too-tempting red herring. One of the basic problems with code generation has always been that, if you ever need to re-generate our code, you will wipe out any manual changes you have made to your generated classes. This is basically unacceptable, because the hand-written code is effectively the tricky bit...