From: Austin Ziegler <austin@...>
Date: 2002-12-18T21:51:14+09:00
Subject: Re: help -- persuade my boss to adopt ruby

On Wed, 18 Dec 2002 14:39:18 +0900, Bulat Ziganshin wrote:
> Tuesday, December 17, 2002, 4:09:55 PM, you wrote:
> AZ> [1] I could make all parameters types of java.lang.Object and
> AZ>     use reflection and introspection to test for response to a
> AZ>     particular method and then do things that way. There goes
> AZ>     all 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

It does get used, and more often than you think -- any time you have
to deal with any of Java's remote call APIs, or a plug-in facility
-- you have to do those tests. Java just makes it hard.

-austin
-- Austin Ziegler, austin@halostatue.ca on 2002.12.18 at 07.32.36