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Duck typing is getting a lot of attention lately, probably due to the hype buzzing around about Ruby/Rails. My first encounter with duck typing was in Python, which is very similar to Ruby in this respect.
The first thing that scares you about duck typing is the lack of the compiler safety net. You [...]