From: Austin Ziegler <austin@...>
Date: 2003-03-24T11:51:33+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby lecture slides (was Strong advantages over Python)

On Mon, 24 Mar 2003 11:14:59 +0900, Greg McIntyre wrote:
> Mark Wilson <mwilson13@cox.net> wrote:
>> Slide 3, bullet point 1: Ruby is strongly typed (all objects have
>> a type) and dynamically typed (type is determined at run time).
> Hrm... let's ask the trusty old FOLDOC...
> 
> http://foldoc.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/foldoc.cgi?strongly+typed
> http://foldoc.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/foldoc.cgi?weakly+typed
> 
> It seems Ruby is neither, although there is no definition for
> "loosely typed" which I may have invented. :\

Ruby objects are strongly typed (all types are known at compile
time); variables, however, are untyped.

-austin
-- Austin Ziegler, austin@halostatue.ca on 2003.03.23 at 21:48:47