DLLs, Namespaces and C# code

[Charles]

I received an email with these three questions, which I will answer here:

1) How can I have cobra generate a dll?

cobra -t:lib foo.cobra

2) Does cobra support namespaces?

Sure does:

use System.Net

namespace Cyberdyne.Skynet
    class Data
        var _foo # ...

3) Is there a way to preserve the generated C# code for education?

Yep. It's a command line option:

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cobra -c -keep-intermediate-files foo.cobra bar.cobra
cobra -c -kif foo.cobra bar.cobra

The files will be named "foo.cobra.cs" and "bar.cobra.cs". You only need one command. "-kif" is a synonym for "-keep...". Also, try out "cobra -h".

I've seen reports that Cobra programs are executing quite fast due to leveraging the C# compiler.