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Duck Typing

So Duck Typing is just the Ruby way to say "Latent Typing," a term that really does have history in computer science.[1]

• synonym for LatentTyping
  
  
• http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck-Typing
• Wiki:DuckTyping
• http://beust.com/weblog/archives/000269.html --The Perils of Duck Typing
• http://boo.codehaus.org/Duck+Typing
• Duck Typing, Libraries, and Concurrency by BruceEckel

• Duck Typing done right
  • Duck Typing Done Right Is Wrong!
    • Some "Duck Typing Can't Scale" crap-ola

• http://www.infoq.com/news/2007/11/protocols-for-ducktyping
  • Class hierarchy doesn't matter with duck typing.
  • replacing the word "methods" with the OOP term "messages"
  • protocol: naming a set of messages