From: Phillip Gawlowski <cmdjackryan@...>
Date: 2008-04-08T06:12:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Method parameters Type

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Avdi Grimm wrote:
| On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 4:28 PM, Mike Blackwell <maiku41@sbcglobal.net>
wrote:
|>  Because, unlike Java, Ruby is not a strongly typed language.
|
| To be pedantic, both Java and Ruby are strongly typed.   However, Java
| is statically types, and Ruby is dynamically typed.
|

Ruby is?

irb(main):001:0> t = String.new
=> ""
irb(main):002:0> t.class
=> String
irb(main):003:0> t = 1
=> 1
irb(main):004:0> t.class
=> Fixnum
irb(main):005:0> exit

Doesn't look like it to me, since I can change the type of a variable
with ease.

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