From: Simon Strandgaard <neoneye@...>
Date: 2004-05-17T23:50:54+09:00
Subject: Re: How to duck type? - the psychology of static typing in Ruby

"SER" <ser@germane-software.com> wrote:
> Broken record time:
> 
> The problem with all of these solutions is that they are discovered at
> run-time.  I find it increasingly irritating when I have to debug
> typing errors by running an application that takes some time to get to
> the error.  Enough of those times, the error is a typing error, so that
> I've been harping lately about wanting a duck-type checker hooked in to
> "ruby -c".

I do plenty of unittesting, and only rarely have such kind of problems.
I can recommend verbose testing.

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Simon Strandgaard