[erlang-questions] Erlang & .NET

Serge Aleynikov saleyn@REDACTED
Sun Sep 28 15:37:15 CEST 2008


Actually this doesn't address the problem I stated, as otp.net project 
already has functions dealing with encoding/decoding terms to/from 
external binary format (similar to what erlocaml does).

What I need is a .NET function with this signature:

	string_to_eterm(string()) -> term()

	I.e. the .NET code analogous to:
	{ok, Tokens} = erl_scan:string(Str),
	{ok, Term}   = erl_parse:parse_term(Tokens),
	Term.

I understand that writing an Erlang term parser is probably easier in 
OCaml / F# than in .NET, but before spending time on writing one, I 
figured I'd first ask the mailing list...

Serge

Ulf Wiger wrote:
> You could stay within the FP fold and port the OCaml
> Erlang term-to-caml type implementation in ErlOcaml
> to F#.  (:
> 
> http://code.google.com/p/erlocaml/source/browse/trunk/lib/ocamerl/ocamerl/eterm.ml
> 
> I have no intuition for whether or not this is a good idea...
> 
> BR,
> Ulf W
> 
> 
> 2008/9/27 Serge Aleynikov <saleyn@REDACTED>:
>> In a recent need to have a rich UI client for some of my UNIX processes,
>> this week I was playing with the otp.net contribution (from jungerl)
>> that implements an Erlang node in .NET.  Given limited experience with
>> .NET I was quite impressed with how easy it was to get a node running in
>> .NET that exchanges terms with the Erlang VM.  After making some
>> improvements to otp.net I ran into a need to be able to have a shell in
>> the UI to execute ad-hoc commands on a distributed node running
>> elsewhere.  I understand that this can be accomplished by passing a
>> string to be evaluated to the Erlang node that would do the parsing and
>> execution, but I'd rather have the parser on the C# side.
>>
>> This brings the question of whether anyone has an open-source
>> implementation of the Erlang term parser in .NET.
>>
>> Serge
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