Yet another Hello World

Jb Evain — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 21:51:00 +0100

using System;
using System.Linq.Expressions;

class HelloWorldOfTrees {

    static void Main ()
    {
        var param = Expression.Parameter (typeof (string), "p");

        var cwl = Expression.Lambda<Action<string>> (
            Expression.Call (
                typeof (Console).GetMethod (
                    "WriteLine", new [] { typeof (string) }),
                param), param).Compile ();

        cwl ("Hello World !");
    }
}

[mono] /tmp @ gmcs test.cs 
[mono] /tmp @ mono test.exe 
Hello World !

Well heh, you can’t do really much more than that, but at least, that is working (sort of).

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Yet another Hello World