From: "Weirich, James" <James.Weirich@...>
Date: 2003-11-20T04:47:29+09:00
Subject: Re: "stereotyping" (was: Re: Strong Typing (Re: Managing metadata	 about attribute types)

> But again, that flexibility is LOST when you have to pass an 
> object to a method that REQUIRES it to behave a certain way. 

Using "kind_of" testing /further/ reduces flexibility by requiring
particular inheritance structures in addition to the protocol requirements.

> Having absolutely NO mechanism leaves people who need to check 
> for certain methods and parameters hanging in the wind.

Can you give an example of where someone would NEED to check.

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