From: Lothar Scholz <mailinglists@...>
Date: 2005-10-03T20:02:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Large Ruby Apps ?

Hello Matt,

MP> A much more recent example of this sort of type inference inference,
MP> for a subset of Python, is Shed Skin:

MP> The guy seems to know what he's talking about, maybe some of these
MP> ideas could be transferrable to an experimental, type inferring Ruby?

I'm still convinced that type inference with ruby and python without
added declarations is complete useless, so i was very surprised by
this stuff, but after reading the following:

<QUOTE>
At the moment the compiler correctly handles 124 unit tests,
six of which are serious programs of between 100 and 200 lines:
</QUOTE>

I now feel again on a save ground with my opinion. The guy had managed to
transform a program of 200 lines of code to C++, very cool. But this
does not say very much about real world usage.


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