From: Kornelius Kalnbach <murphy@...>
Date: 2006-11-20T18:50:14+09:00
Subject: Re: type information

> how does the interpreter (ruby1.8.5) store the type information of  
> a variable
> how will i retrieve it ?
what do you mean? obj.class?

there is an example in string.c:

     switch (TYPE(pat)) {
       case T_REGEXP:
	return pat;

       case T_STRING:
	break;

so I think that is the standard solution.

variables themselves have no types in Ruby, only the objects they  
point at.
[murphy]