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Re: Ten Things Every Java Programmer Should Know About Ruby

Lothar Scholz

1/29/2005 6:24:00 PM

Hello PA,


P> On Jan 29, 2005, at 18:13, Navindra Umanee wrote:

>> What is the point of strong typing then?

P> Pig aPig = Pig.new()
P> Bird aBird = Bird.new()

P> aFlyingPig = (Bird) aPig

P> Doesn't make it so.


A Bird is a Bird if it can "drink" and if it can "eat".
Then isn't the typecast maybe correct ?


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Petite Abeille

1/29/2005 6:30:00 PM

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On Jan 29, 2005, at 19:23, Lothar Scholz wrote:

> A Bird is a Bird if it can "drink" and if it can "eat".
> Then isn't the typecast maybe correct ?

It could indeed be perfectly correct if Pig is derived from Bird. Then
you could easily have flying pigs.

I would love to see such taxonomy though 8^)

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