From: Chad Fowler <chad@...>
Date: 2003-11-20T04:46:51+09:00
Subject: Re: "stereotyping" (was: Re: Strong Typing (Re: Managing metadata about attribute types)

On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, Sean O'Dell wrote:

# I'm clear on the subject of dynamic typing, and I'm not an advocate for static 
# typing.  Being a strong advocate for one or the other is foolish, in my 
# opinion.  Both are useful, and both can be employed here, so I BEG you to 
# please employ SOME form of built-in interface checking.  Having absolutely NO 
# mechanism leaves people who need to check for certain methods and parameters 
# hanging in the wind.
# 

If you really need something that bad, how about respond_to?  If you need 
something more robust, then there's types.rb by Eivind Eklund.