From: Chad Fowler <chad@...>
Date: 2003-11-20T08:02:28+09:00
Subject: Re: "stereotyping" (was: Re: Strong Typing (Re: Managing metadata about attribute types)

On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

# Hi,
# 
# In message "Re: "stereotyping" (was: Re: Strong Typing (Re: Managing metadata about attribute types)"
#     on 03/11/20, Chad Fowler <chad@chadfowler.com> writes:
# 
# |Why not?  By the way, I think types.rb is the only library that actually 
# |*does* type checking in the accurate ruby sense.
# 
# Really?  As long as I checked last time, its check is done based on
# "kind_of?" relation.


Eivind's module is really a generalized checker, for which he happens to 
have implemented support for kind_of? *and* respond_to?  I was referring 
to the respond_to? part when I said that it accurately supports type 
checking.

Though I (and Eivind) don't really see much of a point in using it.

Chad