From: Alex Young <alex@...>
Date: 2006-07-24T21:51:27+09:00
Subject: Re: I'll have the duck!

Robert Dober wrote:
<snip>
> Maybe we can fly. Maybe. But I do not believe so.
> It just strikes me as if the community is throwing away so much by being,
> forgive me to be blunt, intolerant about philosophies that are well known,
> like early failing.
> Although I said intolerant I want to add immediately that they are nicely
> so, but quite firmely.
Duck typing doesn't stop you from failing early.  If you combine the 
#implements? method with the monitor-functions example from earlier in 
the thread, you've got quite a nice interface checker.

You can have your duck and eat it too.

-- 
Alex