From: Pixel <pixel@...>
Date: 2001-12-11T06:52:23+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:28139] Re: The benefits of dynamic typing?

John Carter <john.carter@tait.co.nz> writes:

[...]

> By default every variable starting with an A-G and Q-Z (I think, horror is
> fading from my mind) was REAL*8 a floating point number.
> 
> Conversely every variable starting with I,J,K,L,M,N,O,P was an integer.
> 
> Unless you explicitly declared it otherwise.
> 
> Hence the old FORTRAN joke that GOD is real unless declared integer.

nice one. Now talking about this:
  http://merd.net/choices_syntax.html#varname_and_type

doing some type checking based on the variable names:
  "enforce the convention that functions of the form xxx? are predicates and
   xxx! are mutators."