From: "Mauricio Fernández" <batsman.geo@...>
Date: 2002-10-21T19:39:56+09:00
Subject: [OT] Re: Interfaces in Ruby

On Sun, Oct 20, 2002 at 08:42:20PM +0900, Gavin Sinclair wrote:
> 
> ----- 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.

Isn't it nice to find Latin here and there? 
	"thingify"   ;-)

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