From: Curt Hibbs <curt@...>
Date: 2004-06-09T03:59:49+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Ruby/Interface

Sean O'Dell wrote:
> 
> Ruby/Interface 0.1-1
> 
> Homepage/Documentation: http://interface.rubyforge.org/
> 
> 
> === PURPOSE
> 
> Ruby/Interface was designed to help developers understand the 
> purpose of Ruby 
> objects encountered at run-time. Ruby is very dynamic, and it is 
> sometimes 
> hard to determine what function any given object serves, and the 
> methods to 
> which it responds to fulfill that function.
> 
> Ruby/Interface tries to solve this problem by “tagging” objects as 
> implementing an interface. The implementation is enforced by comparing an 
> object’s methods against the methods expected by the interface. When an 
> object is created from a class which claims to implement an interface, or 
> which includes a module that does, the object is flagged as properly 
> implementing that interface so long as its methods take the same 
> number of 
> parameters as the methods described by the interface.

Very nice... I like it!

Curt