From: Christian Szegedy <szegedy@...>
Date: 2001-05-16T01:52:26+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:15185] Re: Discussion on new Ruby features

Matz wrote:
> I'm interested in *optional* argument type specifier as in Guy

Nice to know this!!!

Have you considered type (of course OPTIONAL) type restriction not just
for the arguments, but also for the variables?

> Decoux's enhancement, not for optimization, but for usability of the
> language. 

Speed can constrain the usability...:)
Of course. it is only true for a small part of the code, but it is 
still true. I would like to write as few C-extensions as possible.

> It would NOT be in the language in the near future, but
> might be in someday.

I don't give up hope.. :)

Thanks!