From: Bulat Ziganshin Date: 2002-12-18T14:39:18+09:00 Subject: Re: help -- persuade my boss to adopt ruby Hello Austin, Tuesday, December 17, 2002, 4:09:55 PM, you wrote: AZ> [1] I could make all parameters types of java.lang.Object and use AZ> reflection and introspection to test for response to a AZ> particular method and then do things that way. There goes all AZ> that strong typing in Java ... but noone do it. so, when language provide optional strong typing, explicit type specifications will be used in most cases -- Best regards, Bulat mailto:bulatz@integ.ru