From: Michael Campbell <michael_s_campbell@...>
Date: 2003-06-20T01:35:55+09:00
Subject: Re: Multiple Initialize methods?

> > > > > They are not type-less there are dynamically typed.
> > > > > Doing 
> > > > >  a = 1 + "1"
> > > > > doesn't work in Ruby, but does in Perl, for example.
> > 
> > 
> > Not to nit-pick here, but in perl aren't "1" and 1 the same type
> > ("scalar") but different contexts?
> 
> Don't know much about Perl, but isn't "scalar" a context (the other
> one being list)?


You might be right; I never thought of it in that way.  

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