From: Daniel DeLorme <dan-ml@...42.com>
Date: 2006-07-26T09:29:41+09:00
Subject: Re: I'll have the duck!

Benjohn Barnes wrote:
> *nods* I tend to agree. When I posted earlier, it certainly seemed like 
> the person I replied to had "gone beyond" or "gone elsewhere" from what 
> I understand by the term "duck typing". As I said, it seemed a lot like 
> prototype classes (adding capabilities to something based on the fact 
> that it already has certain capabilities).

Hmm, as far as I know "prototype classes" is about being able to call .new on 
any object. I'd like to know where you got that notion of "adding capabilities", 
because that's the first time I hear that about prototypes.

Daniel