From: Robert Dober <robert.dober@...>
Date: 2007-09-26T01:47:25+09:00
Subject: Re: Why dynamic languages for ActiveRecord..?

On 9/25/07, Phlip <phlip2005@gmail.com> wrote:
> David A. Black wrote:
>
> > I'd say that the type of a Ruby object can change, but its class
> > cannot. That's based on an understanding of the object's type as a
> > kind of runtime snapshot of what the object can do and what messages
> > it understands.
>
> The inspiration there is Smalltalk, which is similarly strongly typed.
I would not agree with this statement. Smalltalk strongly typed???
Furthermore there is Object>>becomes: (or was it a different class?)
which lets an object change its class too, so that makes a big
difference to Ruby.
BTW I had love to have Object#becomes in Ruby :)))

Cheers
Robert
-- 
I'm an atheist and that's it. I believe there's nothing we can know
except that we should be kind to each other and do what we can for
other people.
-- Katharine Hepburn