John Wilson wrote: > Note *none* of the above require the dynamic language to support > optional static typing so I think it's an issue for Jython and JRuby > too.
It's not nearly as much of an issue as you think. I tend to see categories of types here: integral types and composite types. When calling dynamic typed methods, obviously type is not examined unless by the actual method being called. When calling static-typed methods, JRuby only has implicit coercions for integral types like strings and numbers. Composite types either need to actually be the type required by the target method (it must implement Map if it's to be passed to a Map method) or you must convert them into a type acceptable to the method you want to call. In no cases do we attempt to automatically coerce such types since that introduces an unacceptable object construction, conversion, and identity concern into method invocation. We don't try to pretend we're calling a dynamic language when we call Java...we fail fast if we can't do an integral type coercion. - Charlie --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "JVM Languages" group. To post to this group, send email to jvm-languages@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jvm-languages?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
