Re: how to prevent bugs without static type checking?

[Jay Carlson <nop@...>]

On Oct 26, 2012 9:44 AM, "Javier Guerra Giraldez" <javier@guerrag.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 1:23 AM, steve donovan
> <steve.j.donovan@gmail.com> wrote:
> > As an example of different language culture, Ruby tolerates
> > duck-typing and so people get into messes which are hard to reason
> > about. Lua people are much more reluctant to do that, even though it's
> > trivial to redefine string.match say.
>
> don't you mean monkey-patching?  zoology can be hard!  ;-)

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