Re: [MacRuby-devel] Static Typing

2011-01-18 Thread Charles Oliver Nutter
On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 1:26 AM, Henry Maddocks wrote: > Neither of those projects have anything to do with MacRuby and as far as I > can they don't have much to do with MRI either so their impact will be > academic at best. The Mirah project is trying to make ruby more like Java. > Well there a

Re: [MacRuby-devel] Static Typing

2011-01-06 Thread Laurent Sansonetti
Hi Brad, AFAIK, the static typing in Objective-C is only there to help compilation, it has no effect on the runtime side of the program. What do you have in mind exactly? Laurent On Jan 5, 2011, at 5:34 PM, Brad Hutchins wrote: > Will MacRuby eventually allow for optional Static Typing like i

Re: [MacRuby-devel] Static Typing

2011-01-06 Thread Matthew Ratzloff
Have you found a need for it? -Matt On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 5:34 PM, Brad Hutchins wrote: > Will MacRuby eventually allow for optional Static Typing like in > Objective-C? > ___ > MacRuby-devel mailing list > MacRuby-devel@lists.macosforge.org > http:/

Re: [MacRuby-devel] Static Typing

2011-01-05 Thread Henry Maddocks
On 6/01/2011, at 5:31 PM, Rich Morin wrote: >> No. > > Gotta love categorical answers like this one. They > always sound so definitive and are all too frequently > shown to be incorrect. > > There's some really interesting work being done in > this area, so a better answer might be "not soon":

Re: [MacRuby-devel] Static Typing

2011-01-05 Thread denny trebbin
"no" for static typing is hammered into titan or something other very hard to break material. --- Rich Morin schrieb am Do, 6.1.2011: Von: Rich Morin Betreff: Re: [MacRuby-devel] Static Typing An: "MacRuby development discussions." Datum: Donnerstag, 6. Januar, 2011 05:31 Uh

Re: [MacRuby-devel] Static Typing

2011-01-05 Thread Rich Morin
> No. Gotta love categorical answers like this one. They always sound so definitive and are all too frequently shown to be incorrect. There's some really interesting work being done in this area, so a better answer might be "not soon": The Mirah Programming Language http://www.mirah.org/

Re: [MacRuby-devel] Static Typing

2011-01-05 Thread Henry Maddocks
On 6/01/2011, at 2:34 PM, Brad Hutchins wrote: > Will MacRuby eventually allow for optional Static Typing like in Objective-C? No. ___ MacRuby-devel mailing list MacRuby-devel@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/mac

[MacRuby-devel] Static Typing

2011-01-05 Thread Brad Hutchins
Will MacRuby eventually allow for optional Static Typing like in Objective-C? ___ MacRuby-devel mailing list MacRuby-devel@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macruby-devel