No, Java has the class member and instanceof operator, which would take care of this problem. These are missing in ChucK.<div><br></div><div>/Stefan<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 6:12 PM, Hans Aberg <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:haberg-1@telia.com">haberg-1@telia.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div><div></div><div class="h5">On 4 Sep 2010, at 17:46, Kassen wrote:<br>
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It is not having a type system that is causing problems, but that it often is a bit underdeveloped.<br>
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Yes, and malnourished. &gt;:-)<br>
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For example, if one wants dynamic typing, that can be done by having a type by which the other types can be derived dynamically. Then the problems like the one above cane be done by introducing a new type.<br>
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We can do that for  non-primitives, but we can&#39;t ask a given object &quot;Hey, what&#39;s your type?&quot;. Exactly that is high on my wishlist.<br>
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That may already have it by its implementation. When looking into the sources, I think I saw a base class object from which all others were derived. If so, it is the Java grammar imposed on top that restricts it.<div><div>
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