From: dblack@...
Date: 2005-12-30T00:20:30+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] (Real) Primitive Ruby Generics support

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Hi --

On Thu, 29 Dec 2005, Florian Gro=DF wrote:

> Isaac Devine wrote:
>
>> Thanks! I've quickly looked at the ruby-doc for that. It's seems to
>> only be able to specific "contracts" for classes, with method
>> signatures as a subset.=20
>
> Hm, actually it provides a way of using unit tests for checking types, bu=
t=20
> will still let you do strong typing (via classes) and duck typing (via=20
> messages).

How about strong typing via messages? :-)


David

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