From: Chad Fowler <chad@...>
Date: 2003-11-20T06:02:32+09:00
Subject: Re: "stereotyping" (was: Re: Strong Typing (Re: Managing metadata about attribute types) )

On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, Austin Ziegler wrote:

# On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 04:45:56 +0900, Sean O'Dell wrote:
# > No, type checking based on class inheritance (and mix-ins) is
# > completely fine. Just think of the checking not as "type
# > enforcement" but as "interface declaration."
# 
# Class != type. Type checking on inheritance is, IMO, explicitly a
# bad thing in Ruby.

Does "IMO" mean "In Matz's Opinion"?  I'm joking of course, but the answer 
is (also) yes.