From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2002-10-20T20:42:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Interfaces in Ruby


----- Original Message -----
From: "Jason Voegele" <jason@jvoegele.com>
>
> "Some day" I'm going to have to create an experimental language that,
> going one step beyond Eiffel, reifies contracts and makes them first-class
> language citizens.  Perhaps Ruby's metaprogramming facilities would be
> enough to toy around with this idea.  If not, it could probably be done in
> Lisp.
>
> Jason Voegele

"Reify" is a word I had encountered once.  In a dictionary.  Becuase someone
pointed it out as a funny/cool word.  It's good to see it in use.  I had to
look it up again.  For those interested, it means:

  Convert (a concept etc.) mentally into a thing; materialize.

Keep up the good work.

Gavin