From: William Djaja Tjokroaminata <billtj@...>
Date: 2002-09-27T04:56:33+09:00
Subject: Re: adding overload to ruby

Why not designing a new language with a mix of typed variable and untyped
data?

Regards,

Bill
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bbense+comp.lang.ruby.Sep.26.02@telemark.stanford.edu wrote:
> - - This is not Ruby. If you really want typed arguements, then you
> should not be using ruby. It isn't for everybody. This overload
> proposal is nothing more than the camel's nose of strict typing
> peeking into the tent. 

> - - One of the fundemental things that makes ruby Ruby is that 
> it is not a typed language. This gives the programmer a great
> deal of flexiblity and power, but every freedom comes with a price. 
> The price of this flexiblity is giving up the security blanket
> of type checking.