[chuck-users] "Or"

[Hans Aberg]

On 4 Sep 2010, at 17:46, Kassen wrote:

> It is not having a type system that is causing problems, but that it  
> often is a bit underdeveloped.
>
> Yes, and malnourished. >:-)
>
> 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.
>
> We can do that for  non-primitives, but we can't ask a given object  
> "Hey, what's your type?". Exactly that is high on my wishlist.

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.