From: Dave Thomas <dave@...>
Date: 2004-06-09T00:51:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Expressing intent in method calling...


On Jun 8, 2004, at 9:43, Richard Kilmer wrote:

> This is not a continuation of the type thread other than trying to 
> continue
> to discuss the ideas of adding metadata that could be used to help the
> runtime environment of Ruby.  Before anyone says anything, I have 
> built lots
> of Ruby code without this, and the runtime is just fine...think of 
> this as
> exploration. Disregard all the other syntax I wrote on earlier...and I 
> do
> not care whether something is Hash-like, or is_a? Duck ;-)
>
>   class Person
>     attr_accessor :name
>   end
>
>   def greet(person)
>     puts "Hello there #{person.<Person>name}"
>   end

Isn't this effectively "to_name" or "as_name"?


Cheers

Dave