From: "Iñaki Baz Castillo" <ibc@...>
Date: 2008-04-08T06:25:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Method parameters Type

El Lunes, 7 de Abril de 2008, Phillip Gawlowski escribió:
> 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.

No, look at the following example:

irb(main):001:0> text = "The number is: "
=> "The number is: "

irb(main):002:0> number = 25
=> 25

irb(main):003:0> puts text + number
TypeError: can't convert Fixnum into String
        from (irb):3:in `+'
        from (irb):3
        from :0





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