From: tho_mica_l <micathom@...>
Date: 2008-02-08T04:29:55+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby type-safe? Ruby strongly/weakly typed? Ruby pitfalls?

> Counter-argument: it wouldn't help, either. Many people manage to
> develop lots of useful software in Ruby without it.

Yes, but why not accomodate those poor souls in the ruby community who
would like to be able to do these sorts of things. I mean this doesn't
imply to turn ruby into java 1.0 or something. In an ideal world,
people who don't want variable definitions wouldn't have to use them.
I myself don't care much about them for smaller scripts. But it's
really astonishing to me that among all language I know of to some
extent and that I use from time to time, PHP is the only one that
takes a truely pragmatic stance on this issue. Most other languages
are either 100% tight-assed or never out of bed. (Please enclose the
preceding sentence in irony tags or whatever you like.) I really don't
understand why it's so hard to somehow ... well, be neither, stay
within the middle etc.