From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2005-01-28T15:13:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Type Inference

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On 27 Jan 2005, at 15:29, Curt Sampson wrote:

> Ruby asked me to give up a lot of useful type checking in order to get
> duck typing. It does not have to do so. If it continues to do so, one
> day a language is going to come along that offers what Ruby does but
> doesn't make this compromise, and people will start switching, just as
> people are now switching from Perl to Ruby because Perl doesn't "need" 
> a
> better syntax for OO work.

We've had this debate before.  Please go read the past discussions [1] 
before trying to bring something new to the table, or saying ruby needs 
'X' to be successful.  Especially since we've got lots of ways to add 
typing to ruby already [2] [3].

[1] 
http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Ablade.nagaokaut.ac.jp+type+check
[2] http://people.freebsd.org/~eivind/ruby/types/
[3] http://mephle.org/StrongTyping/

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