From: Michael Campbell <michael_s_campbell@...>
Date: 2003-09-14T05:01:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Duck Typing

--- Ryan Pavlik <rpav@mephle.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 14 Sep 2003 04:32:49 +0900
> Michael Campbell <michael_s_campbell@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> > > Therefore: Based on statements 1-5, "duck typing" is not
> > > specific to ruby...
> > 
> > That was never asserted.
> 
> Yes, but it _was_ asserted that it was a language attribute of
> ruby,
> when you can practice it in other languages, which have no specific
> provisions, any mention of "duck typing", or common practice
> thereof.

Yes.  You can do a lot of things with ruby that you can with other
languages; that it might have some ruby-cultural specific name isn't
a new phenomenon, is it?


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