Leaking .Net Types in Grammar Definitions about nitra HOT 7 OPEN

Best is to shadow .net types with an alternate definition so this is will not be too tied up to the .net platform in the future.

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I think that shouldn't be a problem, since .NET 4.6 will be licensed under MIT, so it would be easy to just feed Nitra compiler with sources (Nemerle is already capable of compiling C#).

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It is still much clearer to have on type system within the scope of Nitra than relying on platform specific types.

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Why invent something new if there is existing open source implementation that can be then compiled by Nitra?

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At this moment we don't have easy way to do it.
After proper typing DSL will be complete, we remove all dependencies from platform.

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OK Great. This will be awesome.

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@kekekeks What I meant is you have an local alias which mimics something like StringBuffer but with a more generic interface so this type will be available in other platform also E,g, JVM or a custom VM.

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