From: dblack@...
Date: 2002-09-30T01:11:24+09:00
Subject: Re: thoughts on typelessness

Hi --

On Sun, 29 Sep 2002, Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk wrote:

> Now look at Array#==:
>
> static VALUE
> rb_ary_equal(ary1, ary2)
>     VALUE ary1, ary2;
> {
>     long i;
>
>     if (ary1 == ary2) return Qtrue;
>     if (TYPE(ary2) != T_ARRAY) return Qfalse;
>     if (RARRAY(ary1)->len != RARRAY(ary2)->len) return Qfalse;
>     for (i=0; i<RARRAY(ary1)->len; i++) {
>         if (!rb_equal(RARRAY(ary1)->ptr[i], RARRAY(ary2)->ptr[i]))
>             return Qfalse;
>     }
>     return Qtrue;
> }
>
> Again it tests the type of the second object and returns false if
> it's not an array. It's not Ruby or what? :-)

Well, actually it looks like C to me :-)  But still, I'm the first to
acknowledge the likelihood of fuzziness in my use of the term
"typeless", as well as other terms.


David

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