From: Harry Ohlsen <harryo@...>
Date: 2001-12-12T10:23:58+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:28300] Re: The benefits of dynamic typing?

In article
<Pine.GSO.4.21.0112120104110.3246-100000@godzilla.ce.chalmers.se>, "Robert
Feldt" <feldt@ce.chalmers.se> wrote:

> (Basically type_hint has to rename any-previous incarnations of the
> method and then add a dispatcher choosing the actual method based on the
> types...)

Isee.  So this is akin to the discussion we had recently about method
overloading.

> What I had in mind was type annotations to make optimizations possible
> when you doing a compiler.

Aha.