From: Florian Gilcher <flo@...>
Date: 2008-04-19T21:04:39+09:00
Subject: Re: why doesn't ruby have generics?

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On Apr 19, 2008, at 1:45 PM, Robert Klemme wrote:

> 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
>

Yeah, thats why I was talking about "such functionality". It would  
serve the same purpose. I was not clear enough about that.

Greetings,

Florian Gilcher
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