From: Alexander Kellett <ruby-lists@...>
Date: 2005-01-27T19:59:16+09:00
Subject: Re: Type Inference

On Jan 27, 2005, at 9:50 AM, Robert Klemme wrote:
>> No. It has been done in practice, just not for Ruby.
>>
>> But I would propose actually changing the language to better support
>> this sort of thing.
>
> I opt against this: not every good or useful language feature must be
> present in Ruby.

i've lost the track of threads now (hope you don't mind
if i request that you please use 'was: blah' when changing
thread name...)

is this for having the benefits of static type checking
or for optimisation?

Alex