From: Huw Collingbourne <huw@...>
Date: 2008-04-27T04:59:49+09:00
Subject: Re: Typed ruby

Joe K wrote:
> I realize there is a holy war attached to this subject, but it would be 
> nice
> to see a standard notation or library that would give 'types' to 
> variables
> and methods, thereby potentially useful for IDE auto-completion; and 
> useful


We already do this in Ruby In Steel (see the IntelliSense section and 
the part about 'type assertions' mid-way down this page: 
http://www.sapphiresteel.com/Ruby-In-Steel-Developer-Overview ).

The way we do this currently is by allowing people to assert argument 
types and return types in comment blocks. That means that they can gain 
extra code-completion and parameter hint capabilities in the Ruby In 
Steel IDE without in any way changing the meaning of the Ruby code 
itself.

best wishes
Huw Collingbourne

SapphireSteel Software
Ruby and Rails In Visual Studio
http://www.sapphiresteel.com
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