From: Robert Dober <robert.dober@...>
Date: 2006-04-02T16:01:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Typed Parameters

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On 4/2/06, Austin Ziegler <halostatue@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 4/1/06, Robert Dober <robert.dober@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Dear group
> >
> > there was a recent thread about "Boolean" and it braught me to my
> > favorit thing I would love to have in Ruby2.
> >
> > *typed parameters*
>
> This might happen, but it's unlikely to work the way you have
> suggested. I personally hope it doesn't happen, as it will make
> Ruby a little less "smart."
>
> > My code is completely filled with things like this:
> >
> >  def never_saw_a_better_method( clever, smart, stupid )
> >             assert_type clever, String
> >            assert_type  smart, Hash
> >           assert_type  stuoid, Boolean
> > ....
> > def cool( clever : String, smart : Hash, stupid : Boolean )
> >
> > and of course
> > def x(y)  would be equivalent to def(x : Object )
> >
> > There is no other than practical reason to that, I found that this
> > kind of type assertion finds the most devious bugs in my code.
>
> It's not actually that practical, and such things end up making your
> code very much like C++ and Java.
>
> Ruby is smarter than that. Ruby can do more than that.
>
> Think in terms of what your object's required capabilities are instead
> of pretending that a class indicator is sufficient for that.
>
> -austin
> --
> Austin Ziegler * halostatue@gmail.com
>                * Alternate: austin@halostatue.ca
>

Austin as I have the highes admiration to your contribution to the
community, these are claims without any evidence.
Would you care to provide some?
I'd really appreciate.

Robert

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