From: Bulat Ziganshin Date: 2002-09-27T18:16:25+09:00 Subject: Re: R (was: adding overload to ruby) Hello Nikodemus, Friday, September 27, 2002, 12:51:01 PM, you wrote: NS> On Fri, 27 Sep 2002, Bulat Ziganshin wrote: >> of course. so we give anyone choice - write efficiently compiled or >> easily extensible dynamic code. it is right thing (IMHO) NS> What I'd *love* would be to keep ruby dynamic as it is, and have a NS> statically typed language, call it R, with a ruby-like syntax for extension NS> writing: the two should be easily interoperable and have equivalent NS> builtin classes. my idea is opposite - ruby code with some hints can be effectively compiled. so there is only one laguage -- Best regards, Bulat mailto:bulatz@integ.ru