From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2001-10-24T05:54:25+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:23089] Variants (theoretical question)

I may be offbase here...

I know very little about VB and Delphi (though
I like what I've seen of Delphi very much).

The entity which these programmers call a
"variant" seems to be just a typeless variable
(referencing typed data).

Is this more or less the same as Ruby's concept
of an ordinary variable?

I've read some comments (where, I can't recall)
raving about the usefulness of variants... I wonder
if this might be a selling point for Ruby with regard
to this kind of programmer? ("Every variable in
Ruby is a variant...")

Can someone comment?

Hal