From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2008-04-19T20:45:17+09:00
Subject: Re: why doesn't ruby have generics?

On 19.04.2008 12:06, Florian Gilcher wrote:
> On Apr 19, 2008, at 11:58 AM, thufir wrote:
> 
>> Is it because Ruby is dynamic, or something else?

> Why would you bind to a type in a language that doesn't really
> care about types? Otherwise, it is easy to implement such
> functionality - just build a new kind of array that has to be
> constructed with a class. Check for this class on insertion.
> I don't see the use, though.

That would be a type restricted Array but not a generic Array.  You 
cannot have generics in a language whose variables are typeless as Arlen 
pointed out.

Cheers

	robert