Re: Duck typing chapter

On Mar 5, 2004, at 6:46 PM, Dave Thomas wrote:

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> On Mar 5, 2004, at 15:04, Chad Fowler wrote:
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> If you want to look at it again, I've updated it in light of your 
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> Cheers
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> Dave
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Thanks, Dave.  I think the tone is much less confrontational now.  
Nicely done.


I forgot to mention one nitpick in the last email.  "Even quite large 
Ruby programs run fine for weeks at a time..." sounds kind of sad.  
"Even quite large..." indicates that Ruby programs get nasty when they 
get big.  I know the point of the sentence is to refute this, but it 
sounds suspicious.  And, "weeks at a time" doesn't sound good to me.  
I'd rather hear "months" or "years at a time", but it might be better 
to leave the unit of measure off altogether.  "Weeks" sounds to me like 
the program is going to crash after 4 or 5 weeks. :)

Thanks,
Chad