[#3109] Is divmod dangerous? — Dave Thomas <Dave@...>

14 messages 2000/06/06

[#3149] Retrieving the hostname and port in net/http — Roland Jesse <jesse@...>

Hi,

12 messages 2000/06/07

[#3222] Ruby coding standard? — Robert Feldt <feldt@...>

16 messages 2000/06/09

[#3277] Re: BUG or something? — Aleksi Niemel<aleksi.niemela@...>

> |I am new to Ruby and this brings up a question I have had

17 messages 2000/06/12
[#3281] Re: BUG or something? — Dave Thomas <Dave@...> 2000/06/12

Aleksi Niemel<aleksi.niemela@cinnober.com> writes:

[#3296] RE: about documentation — Aleksi Niemel<aleksi.niemela@...>

> I want to contribute to the ruby project in my spare time.

15 messages 2000/06/12

[#3407] Waffling between Python and Ruby — "Warren Postma" <embed@...>

I was looking at the Ruby editor/IDE for windows and was disappointed with

19 messages 2000/06/14

[#3410] Exercice: Translate into Ruby :-) — Jilani Khaldi <jilanik@...>

Hi All,

17 messages 2000/06/14

[#3415] Re: Waffling between Python and Ruby — Andrew Hunt <andy@...>

>Static typing..., hmm,...

11 messages 2000/06/14

[#3453] Re: Static Typing( Was: Waffling between Python and Ruby) — Andrew Hunt <andy@...>

32 messages 2000/06/16

[#3516] Deep copy? — Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs@...>

Given that I cannot overload =, how should I go about ensuring a deep

20 messages 2000/06/19

[#3694] Why it's quiet — hal9000@...

We are all busy learning the new language

26 messages 2000/06/29
[#3703] Re: Why it's quiet — "NAKAMURA, Hiroshi" <nahi@...> 2000/06/30

Hi,

[#3705] Re: Why it's quiet — matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto) 2000/06/30

Hi,

[ruby-talk:03483] Re: Static Typing( Was: Waffling between Python and Ruby)

From: Patrick.Schoenbach@... (Patrick Schoenbach)
Date: 2000-06-17 16:05:12 UTC
List: ruby-talk #3483
On Sat, 17 Jun 2000 09:32:08 GMT,
Thaddeus L. Olczyk <olczyk@interaccess.com> wrote:

>On Thu, 15 Jun 2000 22:11:34 -0400, Andrew Hunt <andy@Toolshed.Com>
>wrote:
>>
>>I disagree strongly.  While Meyer is an advocate of static typing, I
>>see no reason that DBC cannot be effective in a dynamically typed
>>environment -- in fact, it seems to me that DBC could be even *more*
>>useful in a dynamic environment than in a static one.

I agree with Andy here. IMHO DBC and typing are two different things. We
Eiffelists believe that static typing is better suited to create robust
and correct systems. This is heavily argued thought, and we should not
start another "static vs dynamic typing" war.

But DBC is not directly related to the typing issue. Even in Eiffel,
assertion checking is done completely at *run time*. So, I see no
problems either to implement DBC in a dynamic environment.

-- 
Best regards,
Patrick

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