From: Thien Vuong <tvuong@...>
Date: 2003-11-20T16:02:14+09:00
Subject: Re: "stereotyping" (was: Re: Strong Typing (Re: Managing metadata about attribute types) )



Austin Ziegler wrote:

> 
>>I do wonder what functional purpose does "kind_of?" serves now
>>that it was severely denigrated in the language - should it be
>>deprecated/ removed? since it is considered totally bad style to
>>use.
> 
> 
> I don't think that it's totally useless. I do think that it's of
> extremely limited utility.
> 

Could you give me an example of what is considered a good use then?
Given the presumption that object classification and knowledge is bad,
what good information could be gained from knowing it?

Thien