Smalltalk = strongly typed?

Ned Konz ned at squeakland.org
Thu Oct 14 14:20:17 UTC 2004


On Thursday 14 October 2004 4:15 am, Blake wrote:
>         I see the evolution of languages and environments needing to move
> toward   respect for the distinctions between design-time and compile-time
> and interface interaction. I'm not sure the Smalltalk approach of "it's all
> design time--or run-time, whatever"<s> is optimal.

There have been a number of environments that added some amounts of (optional) 
type declaration and static checking to what were otherwise entirely 
dynamically-typed languages.

Look at Strongtalk, for instance.
http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/projects/strongtalk/pages/index.html

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