[REBOL] Return types Re:(2)

2000-04-05 Thread dankelg8
On Tue, 4 Apr 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well Gisle... REBOL is currently an interpreted language. This means that all of the various language processing, including type-checking, is done at runtime. Under these circumstances, type-checking is a luxury, only done to catch errors.

[REBOL] Return types Re:(2)

2000-04-04 Thread ingo
Those were the words of [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi Gisle, why should return types be defined for functions? Just some random thoughts on this: 1) it would be easier to guess what a function does, or how to use it: compare this help compress Compresses a string series and