From: ptkwt@... (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2004-12-01T09:07:46+09:00
Subject: Re: Optional static typing (or, What can Ruby 2.0 borrow from Boo?)

In article <20041130210338.GC9390@puritan.pcp.ath.cx>,
Nikolai Weibull  <mailing-lists.ruby-talk@rawuncut.elitemail.org> wrote:
>* Daniel Berger <djberg96@hotmail.com> [Nov 30, 2004 22:00]:
>> I was just looking at http://boo.codehaus.org/BooManifesto.pdf.  One
>> thing I really kinda like is the optional static typing.  Wouldn't
>> this allow potential compile time error checking and optimization with
>> a virtual machine running things?
>
>Finally, a thread on static versus dynamic typing in Ruby!
>	nikolai
>

Oh no, not another one.

Quick, duck!  (or perhaps I should say, Super Duck (type) to the rescue!)

[Often red gemstones are used to represent Ruby, but perhaps we should 
consider a duck of some sort.  Maybe even an ascii-art one we can drag 
out for these occasions.]

Phil