From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2005-06-01T04:37:44+09:00
Subject: Re: Intellisense and the psychology of typing

On 5/31/05, Eric Mahurin <eric_mahurin@yahoo.com> wrote:
> --- Austin Ziegler <halostatue@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Then you're not paying attention. Sorry if that offends you,
> > but you're just not paying attention.
> From your history of posts, you definitely are not sorry that
> you are offending.  Insulting people will not help convince
> anybody that you are right.  You will get much further being
> nice and attempting to see where they are coming from.

Actually, I am sorry if he's offended. I *am* exasperated that this
keeps coming up and that no one ever looks at this history of the
topic before bringing it up again, or that certain people bring it up
regardless.

If you were offended by the stridence that I've used in opposing some
of the proposals you've made, I am sorry. That doesn't mean I won't be
strident about opposing things that I think are bad for Ruby, but that
I don't mean to cause offence with that.

> BTW, I happen to agree with you on this topic.  I like no/duck
> typing in the language.  It provides much more flexibility and
> power.

I do want hinting -- or at least a documentation "standard" -- for the
reasons mentioned in this thread (documentation, IDEs, etc.). But I
don't want anything that can reasonably be considered remotely close
to static typing.

-austin
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