[#1263] Draft of the updated Ruby FAQ — Dave Thomas <Dave@...>

33 messages 2000/02/08

[#1376] Re: Scripting versus programming — Andrew Hunt <andy@...>

Conrad writes:

13 messages 2000/02/15

[#1508] Ruby/GTK and the mainloop — Ian Main <imain@...>

17 messages 2000/02/19
[#1544] Re: Ruby/GTK and the mainloop — Yasushi Shoji <yashi@...> 2000/02/23

Hello Ian,

[#1550] Re: Ruby/GTK and the mainloop — Ian Main <imain@...> 2000/02/23

On Wed, Feb 23, 2000 at 02:56:10AM -0500, Yasushi Shoji wrote:

[#1516] Ruby: PLEASE use comp.lang.misc for all Ruby programming/technical questions/discussions!!!! — "Conrad Schneiker" <schneiker@...>

((FYI: This was sent to the Ruby mail list.))

10 messages 2000/02/19

[#1569] Re: Ruby: constructors, new and initialise — Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>

The following message is a courtesy copy of an article

12 messages 2000/02/25

[ruby-talk:01388] Re: Say hi (bis)

From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2000-02-15 15:31:46 UTC
List: ruby-talk #1388
Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:01377] Re: Say hi (bis)"
    on 00/02/15, Pixel <pixel_@mandrakesoft.com> writes:

|that wasn't my point, stuff i want mainly is _compile-time_ checks.
|
|eg:
|
|def fact(n); n==0 ? 1 : n * fact(n - 1); end
|
|can be *infered* as Fixnum -> Fixnum
|
|i know this analysis restrict the power of dynamic-typing, but i'm really sure a
|lot of typos can be catched by using this rubylint stuff. You must see it as
|saying ``Hey, strange stuff here''. Then just have a quick look at those strange
|points...

Hmm, I'm not sure this kind of type inference for totally dynamic
language like Ruby would work.  In Ruby, even Fixnum#+ can be
redefined, so that no type information can be used at compile time.
It's much harder than Perl, which is partially static typed language. 

Yes, Perl is a statically typed language, except for references.  The
only types in Perl are scalar, array, hash, and type glob. :-)

							matz.

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