From: Arlen Cuss <celtic@...>
Date: 2008-02-21T10:49:41+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby type-safe? Ruby strongly/weakly typed? Ruby pitfalls?

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On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 3:18 AM, Moises Trovo <moises.trovo@gmail.com>
wrote:

> ...
>
> irb(main):001:0> 4.class
> => Fixnum
> irb(main):002:0> (4.to_i*2).class
> => Fixnum
>
> The type doesn't change in your example.
>
>
Moreover, the type will never change in its lifetime, as Eivind mentioned.
Sure, they have plenty of methods that return different types (String#split,
Integer#to_f, Symbol#to_proc [1.9/Rails]...), but nothing alters the
object's type itself.

Arlen

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