From: dblack@...
Date: 2006-07-27T00:18:21+09:00
Subject: Re: I'll have the duck!

Hi --

On Thu, 27 Jul 2006, ara.t.howard@noaa.gov wrote:

> On Wed, 26 Jul 2006 dblack@wobblini.net wrote:
>
>> My view is that we don't need to choose a winner-take-all term to refer
>> collectively to *everything* connected with Ruby's type mechanism, 
>> including
>> the way(s) programmers use that mechanism.  We can have a slightly 
>> whimsical
>> but expressive term like "duck typing" to refer to one aspect of it, and
>> other terms to refer to other, related things.  I'm fond of "duck typing",
>> "quasi-prototyped objects", and various other terms -- all of which refer 
>> to
>> something of interest.
>
> indeed - still that 'type' bit is quite a cause for confusion.

Don't take it too absolutely concretely on a word-by-word basis,
though.  The "typing" in "duck typing" is a bit like the "bookkeeping"
in "creative bookkeeping" :-)


David

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