From: Austin Ziegler <austin@...>
Date: 2003-11-20T05:53:07+09:00
Subject: Re: "stereotyping" (was: Re: Strong Typing (Re: Managing metadata about attribute types)

On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 02:51:02 +0900, Sean O'Dell wrote:
> Actually, kind_of? is far more informative. kind_of? indicates
> that it belongs to a pre-described interface (a contract), with a
> fixed collection of methods with parameters which are also known.

Not in Ruby, it doesn't. #kind_of? tells you that it has a
particular name in its ancestry. Nothing more, nothing less.
Treating a name as a contract is improper, because that's not the
case at all.

-austin
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