From: Sean O'Dell <sean@...>
Date: 2003-11-21T10:30:06+09:00
Subject: Re: New Type Checking System Idea

On Thursday 20 November 2003 05:24 pm, Austin Ziegler wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 09:54:08 +0900, Sean O'Dell wrote:
> > It looks like too much happens at run-time, always checking and
> > querying for certain methods, etc. Also, the concept of a whole
> > interface, rather than querying for a set of required methods, I
> > always think is easier to grasp.
>
> For all intents and purposes, there is no such thing as "compile-
> time" in Ruby. Yes, Ruby does go through an AST parser, but compile-
> time optimizations won't work in Ruby because any method can be
> redefined. At any time, and this invokes compile-time again.

I know, but for my purposes, I think of the point in which the bulk of a main 
class is loaded as the compile-time.  I don't know of another term I can use 
to refer to this ramping-up period.

It would have nice, instead of hearing that I was using the wrong term, you 
had offered a more correct term.

	Sean O'Dell