From: Daniel Schierbeck <daniel.schierbeck@...>
Date: 2006-05-28T21:09:54+09:00
Subject: Re: Crazy thought -- Rubyish type conversion?

Florian Gro� wrote:
> Daniel Schierbeck wrote:
> Perhaps it is time for writing another source code filter. What do you 
> think about?
> 
>>   def foo(<String> bar, <Integer> baz, <Symbol> bur)
> 
> That way you could use any expression where the type appears. Method 
> calls, variables and so on.

Hmmm, I'm not too fond of the use of classes -- I'd like to use the 
#to_* methods instead. Otherwise the dynamic typing will suffer.

Perhaps this?

   def foo(<str> bar, <int> baz, <sym> bur); end

Although I still think this is more terse:

   def foo(str bar, int baz, sym bur); end


Daniel