From: Zhao Yi Date: 2008-09-07T11:04:41+09:00 Subject: Re: Why is Ruby dynamic? Robert Klemme wrote: > 2008/9/6 James Adam : >> On 6 Sep 2008, at 02:16, Zhao Yi wrote: >> >>> People say Ruby is a dynamic language. I don't understand what the >>> "dynamic" mean here. Does this mean Ruby can dynamic change itself at >>> run-time? >> >> Essentially, yes. You might consider it sort-of-opposite to a 'compiled' >> language, though that's less strictly true. Ruby objects are completely >> malleable as your program runs. > > There are several aspects to Ruby's dynamism: methods and classes can > change at runtime, variables are dynamically typed and generally as > implementing is often faster than in other languages Ruby is very > dynamic (some call it "agile"). > > Kind regards > > robert It is also same for other scripts like perl, python, so they are all dynamic language? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.