From: Mark Wilson <mwilson13@...>
Date: 2003-11-20T11:27:32+09:00
Subject: Re: "stereotyping" (was: Re: Strong Typing (Re: Managing metadata about attribute types)


On Nov 19, 2003, at 4:16 PM, Sean O'Dell wrote:

> [snip]

> You said the following:
>
>> I admit type checking can gain you something, at the cost of
>> flexibility, which I don't want to pay in Ruby.
>
> You don't want to pay the price of type checking in Ruby.  My version 
> of it is
> really "interface checking," but either way what you said sounds like 
> you've
> decided you don't want to pay the price for any of this.

While I could be wrong, my interpretation of what matz said is that he 
doesn't want to pay the price _in_ Ruby. Where else might this go? 
Perhaps a virtual machine, an optimizing compiler, a run time 
environment?

Regards,

Mark