http://kurt.karmalab.org/articles/2007/04/27/on-type-safety.rss en-us 40 Tech and Business Ramblings by Kurt Schrader <p>Does the lack of static typing in Ruby preclude you from implementing your own checks, automatically? In other words, is there a (good) way to get at the AST, either during normal execution (like you can in Common Lisp macro expansions, which can occur at runtime), or in some code that runs at another time (like apt does for Java)?</p> <p>Also, didn't Smalltalk get its symbols from Lisp?</p> Sat, 28 Apr 2007 07:29:23 -0700 urn:uuid:e2c6f876-8ccf-4d07-a6c9-98d92716db16 http://kurt.karmalab.org/articles/2007/04/27/on-type-safety#comment-883