Re^3: Star, not 1.0. April, not March.

Because I'm suffering from perl5's class and object system. I'm dreaming about owning a language with explicit grammar (or compile-time check) of attribute overloading.

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Re^4: Star, not 1.0. April, not March. by educated_foo (Vicar) on Dec 19, 2009 at 13:59 UTC
Given that Ruby doesn't really have a "compile time," you're looking in the wrong direction.	[reply]
Re^5: Star, not 1.0. April, not March. by llancet (Friar) on Dec 20, 2009 at 02:01 UTC
Thanks. So what about python?	[reply]
Re^6: Star, not 1.0. April, not March. by educated_foo (Vicar) on Dec 25, 2009 at 04:08 UTC
Same deal, I think. If the language has a hook for undefined attributes and methods (e.g. `AUTOLOAD/method_missing`), you have to sacrifice compile-time guarantees. IIRC Python has this.	[reply] [d/l]