From: "Mauricio Fernández" Date: 2003-06-19T23:23:59+09:00 Subject: Re: Multiple Initialize methods? On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 09:43:19PM +0900, Sam Griffith wrote: > On 6/19/2003 3:46 AM, in article > 20030619084602.GA8628@student.ei.uni-stuttgart.de, "Mauricio Fern�ndez" > wrote: > > > On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 05:40:02PM +0900, Sam Griffith wrote: > >> Nick, > >> > >> A common idiom in type-less languages like Ruby, Smalltalk and others is > > > > They are not type-less there are dynamically typed. > > Doing > > a = 1 + "1" > > doesn't work in Ruby, but does in Perl, for example. > > > > Objects aren't type-less, but variables are. But I should have been more > clear. Sorry about that! Sorry for being so nit-picking. I still think your post would be a nice addition to the Wiki (hint, hint :-) -- _ _ | |__ __ _| |_ ___ _ __ ___ __ _ _ __ | '_ \ / _` | __/ __| '_ ` _ \ / _` | '_ \ | |_) | (_| | |_\__ \ | | | | | (_| | | | | |_.__/ \__,_|\__|___/_| |_| |_|\__,_|_| |_| Running Debian GNU/Linux Sid (unstable) batsman dot geo at yahoo dot com We come to bury DOS, not to praise it. -- Paul Vojta, vojta@math.berkeley.edu