From: Ryan Pavlik <rpav@...>
Date: 2003-09-14T17:40:28+09:00
Subject: Re: Duck Typing

On Sun, 14 Sep 2003 15:22:37 +0900
Martin DeMello <martindemello@yahoo.com> wrote:

<snip>
> Any yes, it's by no means specific to Ruby, but it is the way the
> language defines a 'type'.

No, it's how _you the programmer_ define a 'type'.  You have a few
options here; "duck typing" is just one of them.  It has nothing to do
with what the languages specifies in this case.

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Ryan Pavlik <rpav@mephle.com>

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