Hello Albert, Tuesday, October 01, 2002, 6:01:11 PM, you wrote: AW> Hi, Bill. You are very persistent and seem to be a little slow on the uptake. AW> In that I already have a reputation on this list as being somewhat of a loose AW> cannon, let me state something very clearly. Type checking is undesired and AW> unnecessary in any purely OOP language, Ruby included. eiffel too? :) untyped variables is common for interpreted/script/prototype languages, not OO langs -- Best regards, Bulat mailto:bulatz / integ.ru