"Sean O'Dell" <sean / celsoft.com> wrote in message news:<200406081352.14108.sean / celsoft.com>...
> On Tuesday 08 June 2004 13:05, David A. Black wrote:
> > Hi --
> >
> > On Wed, 9 Jun 2004, Sean O'Dell wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 08 June 2004 11:23, Daniel Berger wrote:
> > > > "Sean O'Dell" <sean / celsoft.com> wrote in message
> > > > news:<200406080736.32485.sean / celsoft.com>...
> > > >
> > > > > On Tuesday 08 June 2004 06:04, Daniel Berger wrote:
> > > > > > "Sean O'Dell" <sean / celsoft.com> wrote in message
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I published an "interface" module a short while back.  You can find
> > > > > > it on the RAA or at:
> > > > >
> > > > > Mine looks pretty close to how yours works except it verifies the
> > > > > number of method arguments.  Whenever a method is added or removed,
> > > > > the compliance flag is lowered so the next time has_interface? is
> > > > > called, a complete check is re-done to be sure the object still
> > > > > complies.  Is yours written in C?  One thing I wanted was for this to
> > > > > have as little overhead as possible, so I didn't feel like I was
> > > > > slowing down my project too much by calling it everywhere.
> > > > >
> > > > > 	Sean O'Dell
> > > >
> > > > It's pure Ruby.  I don't think adding arity checks and hooks for
> > > > method_added/method_removed would be difficult.
> > >
> > > Probably wouldn't, but I just finished mine and it's released, and it's
> > > in C. I don't know what to do about the name clash.  I can't think of
> > > another name that works as well, and I have to move on to some actual
> > > work here.
> >
> > It's hard to think of a name that works *less* well, since this one
> > clashes with an already-available package.  I hope you'll consider
> > renaming it, as a courtesy to Dan and to reduce confusion by potential
> > users.
> 
> I will when I have a suitable alternative.
> 
> 	Sean O'Dell

Since the whole thing was inspired by "duck typing", how about these
suggestions:

duckface
quacker
quackerface
ducktyper

.....hmm....as I was typing this I realized you already picked
'celsoft.com/interface' or something. :(

Oh, well.

Dan