From: Jonas Pfenniger <zimba.tm@...>
Date: 2006-09-20T04:33:22+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Ducktator - A Duck Type Validator

On 19/09/06, Ola Bini <ola.bini@ki.se> wrote:
> Oh yes. You could, but on the other hand you would have to write code
> like that if you want it somewhere else. Or, if you want something that
> checks another aspect. Actually, the validator is really for the more
> convoluted cases, where you still need validity of some kind. If your
> objects always are in your control, sure, or if you want to sprinkle
> your code with respond_to?'s all over, that's fine, just do that. I feel
> the need for this when I load huge YAML documents with nested structure,
> or when receiving something through SOAP, that I need to test out. For
> example. This isn't static type safety, nor anywhere close. But it lets
> you fail fast of the object doesn't match.

Yeah so your project is more a YAML DTD. It uses duck-typing but also
class validation.

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