On Tuesday 01 October 2002 1:19 pm, William Djaja Tjokroaminata wrote:
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> If the concern is that optional typing will make overall Ruby slower, we
> can just use a switch when running Ruby interpreter, where "ruby
> -no_type_check" will run the current, established, interpreter, and other
> switches will invoke a new interpreter which will have optional typing.
>

Hi, Bill.  You are very persistent and seem to be a little slow on the uptake.  
In that I already have a reputation on this list as being somewhat of a loose 
cannon, let me state something very clearly.   Type checking is undesired and 
unnecessary in any purely OOP language, Ruby included.  You seem to be intent 
on recruiting someone else to write a new language to your specifications.  I 
suspect that you will not find anyone willing to do that here.  Therefore, I 
suggest that you take what is the time honored path in open source software:  
do it yourself.

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