From: "John G. Morony" <jm1710@...>
Date: 2000-12-14T00:45:22+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:7155] Re: Ruby in the US


--- Josh Stern <jstern@foshay.citilink.com> wrote:

> I personally believe that some form of strong typing
> is invaluable
> for large projects, but it makes quick development
> much slower,
> so Ruby is potentially a great compliment to
> strongly typed
> languages just for that reason.  But it would also
> be nice
> to have flexible facilities for typing and 'design
> by contract'
> that operate at run time in Ruby when in 'debug
> mode', and
> have little or no overhead when in normal mode -
> some
> run time device that is, say, comparable to the
> assert() macro
> in C.  I just started thinking about Ruby two weeks
> ago, and just
> got your excellent book last weekend, so I'm not
> qualified to
> say what the best way is to implement that in Ruby
> (perhaps
> a mixin for adding extra type info and argument
> signatures
> to functions??).
> 
> -= Josh

This discussion sort of reminds me of an episode of
The Simpsons where KrustyLu Studios is conducting a
focus group of children trying to figure out how to
make the "Itchy and Scratchy" cartoon more appealing
to kids.  After presenting two opposing views, the
kids want both of them.  "So what you're saying is
that you want a realistic, down-to-earth show full of
magic robots from outer-space."





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