[rdnzl-devel] A patch for CAST to enable casting to types from assemblies loaded using LoadFrom

[Iver Odin Kvello]

Hello,

Here is another set of patches that fixes a small issue with CAST: the
current CAST uses GetType with an assembly-qualified type-name only,
and therefore will not work with types in an assembly loaded using
System.Reflection.Assembly.LoadFrom and similar. The patch makes CAST
use a Type-object directly if passed one instead of a type-name, like
NEW already did.

That is, one can do

  (setf assembly (invoke "System.Reflection.Assembly" "LoadFrom" url))
  (setf mytype (invoke assembly "GetType" sometypename))
  (cast someobject mytype)

This should be the minimal neccessary support for these kinds of
assemblies in case they are needed for an application.

Regards,
Iver Odin Kvello
iok at selvaag.no
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