On 1/9/06, James Britt <james_b / neurogami.com> wrote:
> Gregory Brown wrote:
> > ...
> > The fear in part has to do with type checking.  Ruby being typeless
>
> Ruby is not typeless.

Aren't all ruby objects under the hood of type VALUE?

sandal@karookachoo:~$ irb
irb(main):001:0> 3.type
(irb):1: warning: Object#type is deprecated; use Object#class
=> Fixnum

So... aren't we supposed to ignore type now? ;)

Please elaborate on what you meant by this, because I am interested.
( My conception of ruby's type system might have been wrong)