From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2004-05-18T18:25:18+09:00
Subject: Re: How to duck type? - the psychology of static typing in Ruby

Hi,

In message "Re: How to duck type? - the psychology of static typing in Ruby"
    on 04/05/18, Marek Janukowicz <childNOSPAM@t17.ds.pwr.wroc.pl> writes:

|But the feature I described in my previous post has no equivalent in
|Java - I'll try to explain it (I may be very wrong, so anyone knowing
|Obj-C better please correct me):

Tell me briefly what feature is not present in Java, and what you can
get by the feature, AFTER reading "duck typing" post [ruby-talk:100511]
VERY CAREFULLY.

I buy the flexibility from dynamic typing at the cost of compile-time
type check.  I don't think I am going to change my mind.

							matz.