From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2003-11-21T23:32:19+09:00
Subject: Re: "stereotyping"

Sean O'Dell <sean@celsoft.com> wrote:
> Normal Ruby types are so dynamic, I don't think you could ever base type 
> checking on them.  Not without excessive runtime overhead.  I could be wrong, 
> but that just seems like such a dark, ugly alleyway.  Types, as required by 
> method parameters in my proposal, would be interface names, and objects 
> passed to those methods must completely fulfill the interface required.

Ah, okay. That does sound like a promising approach, particularly since
you can annotate existing ruby objects with interface names.

martin