How to reference identifiers with dollar signs from C#?
c#, ikvm, scala
Solution
You should be able to access the funky methods using reflection. Not a nice solution, but at least it should work. Depending on the structure of the API in the DLL it may be feasible to create a wrapper around the methods to localise the reflection code. Then from the rest of your code just call the nice wrapper.
The alternative would be to hack on the IL in the target DLL and change the identifiers. Or do some post-build IL-hacking on your own code.
Problem
I'm trying to use a DLL generated by ikvmc from a jar file compiled from Scala code (yeah my day is THAT great). The Scala compiler seems to generate identifiers containing dollar signs for operator overloads, and IKVM uses those in the generated DLL (I can see it in Reflector). The problem is, dollar signs are illegal in C# code, and so I can't reference those methods. Any way to work around this problem?