[MacRuby-devel] Static Typing

[Rich Morin]

> No.

Gotta love categorical answers like this one.  They
always sound so definitive and are all too frequently
shown to be incorrect.

There's some really interesting work being done in
this area, so a better answer might be "not soon":

  The Mirah Programming Language
  http://www.mirah.org/

  Dynamic Inference of Static Types for Ruby
  http://www.cs.umd.edu/~jfoster/papers/popl11.pdf


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