From: Roger Pack <rogerpack2005@...>
Date: 2009-03-14T21:16:48+09:00
Subject: Re: Hi..About Gsoc 2009 project ideas...

> However in Ruby i didn come accross  such a framework for
> specifying/processing annoations and its purely my assumption that ruby
> currently doesn't support such behavior (if i'm wrong pls some one 
> enlighten
> me on this ) . I'm no annotaion frameworks geek , bt  would really like
> suggest this as a Gsoc proposal for Ruby and willng to undertake such a
> project with a mentor who knws this stuff well..
> And thnx again for ur kind feedback..

'Right currently the only "blessed" annotation is that if you have 
comments justified with your first line of a method those are used for 
rdoc generation :)

Typically to add annotations I believe you roll your own with 
method_added [1 is an example].

Good luck!
-=r

[1] http://www.codecommit.com/blog/ruby/adding-type-checking-to-ruby

re: type specifying which this link contains

Now that I think about it, I wonder if there's a way to do some type of 
static ruby type hinting, a la duby, something like
module M
 static_section do
   typeSig a: Numeric, b: String
   def go(a, b)
      # this can be compiled down to C or have byte code emitted for it 
or what not.
   end
 end
end

Then those spiffy ruby2c or JIT compilers would be helped along their 
way, I guess.  Just wishing for a ruby psyco still :)
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