From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2005-05-27T03:42:32+09:00
Subject: Re: Intellisense and the psychology of typing

On 5/26/05, Lothar Scholz <mailinglists@scriptolutions.com> wrote:
> Sometimes i think that the missing typeing eats up very much of the
> time that is saved by being typeless as Code is much harder to read
> and understand. That's why i simply can't understand people who are
> against "optional" type declarations.

Because I don't want foo to only accept String objects. Suggestions
have been made for applying this information as metadata for the
purposes of parameter suggestions and RPC mapping, but they never seem
to take off very much. Something like:

  param :bar => :String
  return_as :String
  def foo(bar)
    bar.upcase
  end

Yes, it's more typing. No, it doesn't restrict my code at all.

-austin
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