From: Austin Ziegler Date: 2004-11-12T03:00:11+09:00 Subject: Re: Thinking About Java Interfaces In Ruby On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 00:19:28 +0900, James Edward Gray II wrote: > You don't really just say, "Pass in an object that responds to X, > Y, and Z." in the RDoc, do you? Yes, indeed, I do. If I want something that responds to #<<, I'll say that. The only reason I really see for having interface hinting is automatic cross-language interface discovery (e.g., SOAP, CORBA, etc.). This way, you can simply say "this class is available for SOAP manipulation" and SOAP can discover what it expects. I haven't missed interfaces in the way that they are required for less dynamic languages. -austin -- Austin Ziegler * halostatue@gmail.com * Alternate: austin@halostatue.ca