From: Robert Dober <robert.dober@...>
Date: 2007-07-08T17:02:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Polymorphic Code

On 7/8/07, Stefan Rusterholz <apeiros@gmx.net> wrote:

> For your own good, don't do that. Don't work your way around how a
> language works to simulate some patterns you learned in another
> language. That just leads to bad code and wasted time (no need to learn
> a new language if you just continue to code in the other language).

Stefan, thanks for defending the ducks ;). But I feel that you forget
that Ruby is perfectly polymorphic as Sharon has shown above. I do not
really see how DT and Polymurphy ;) are related.

Cheers
Robert
>
> For the ruby way of that, you may want to take a look at
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_typing
>
> Regards
> Stefan
>
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