[#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:03584] Re: Static Typing( Was: Waffling between Python and Ruby)

From: olczyk@... (Thaddeus L. Olczyk)
Date: 2000-06-21 17:56:45 UTC
List: ruby-talk #3584
On 21 Jun 2000 12:10:18 -0500, Dave Thomas <Dave@Thomases.com> wrote:

>> Maybe I was misunderstanding the original poster, but he seemed to be
>> advocating DbC without any notion of types other than "object that responds
>> to message X".  To state the obvious, if the language has a notion of
>> interface, protocol, or type, it's merely necessary to check that the object
>> conforms to that type, at compile-time or run-time, since the contract is
>> available in the interface/protocol/type definition.
>
>Not always (there are issues with polymorphism) but in general.
There are no issues with polymorphism. This is what polymorphism
is all about. Yes there are programmers that can create issues ( eg by
violating Liskov ), but there are no *good* programmers.

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