From: Bulat Ziganshin <bulatz@...>
Date: 2002-09-27T15:00:56+09:00
Subject: Re: adding overload to ruby

Hello bbense+comp,

Thursday, September 26, 2002, 11:56:30 PM, you wrote:

>>why you don't want to add overload to mainstream ruby?
>>

bclrS20tse> - - This is not Ruby. If you really want typed arguements, then you
bclrS20tse> should not be using ruby.

ruby is not great technical advance. it's large collection of
excellent ideas from many languages, carefully glued together. as
Newton says "i see far enough because i was supported by gigants"

bclrS20tse> - - One of the fundemental things that makes ruby Ruby is that 
bclrS20tse> it is not a typed language. This gives the programmer a great
bclrS20tse> deal of flexiblity and power, but every freedom comes with a price. 
bclrS20tse> The price of this flexiblity is giving up the security blanket
bclrS20tse> of type checking. 

you want to enforce "great flexibility"? :)


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