From: Brian Candler <B.Candler@...>
Date: 2003-08-09T16:22:00+09:00
Subject: Re: Ducktype, right?

On Sat, Aug 09, 2003 at 08:29:24AM +0900, Jim Weirich wrote:
> Duck typing itself has little to do with using responds_to?.  Duck
> typing is what we do every day in Ruby where we don't explicitly declare
> types by inheriting from a classes or interfaces.  We just implement the
> methods needed (with the proper semantics).
> 
> The responds_to? thread has more to do with type discovery

Just as an aside, it's respond_to? not responds_to?

(like Array#include? not being Array#includes?)

Cheers,

Brian.