From: Jeffrey Schwab <jeff@...>
Date: 2006-02-07T10:43:21+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby jargon and slang

Matthew Smillie wrote:
> On Feb 6, 2006, at 13:58, Jeffrey Schwab wrote:
> 
>> Hal Fulton wrote:
>>
>>> zdennis wrote:
>>>
>>>> um... the push operator <<
>>>>
>>>> some folks call it the less-than-less-than thing, but that seems  
>>>> soo long.
>>>
>>> Noted. I usually call it the append operator.
>>
>>
>> In C++, it's often called the insertion operator.  I have been  
>> thinking of it as such in Ruby.
> 
> 
> So, if it operates like a duck...

Exactly.

I never understand why people think of duck typing as being unique to 
dynamic languages.  C++ has great support for static, generic 
programming, and a lot of what Ruby does at run-time, C++ can do at 
compile-time.

Of course, Ruby has plenty of advantages of its own. :)