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by b123400 2616 days ago
Interesting. I thought the Ruby community generally prefers shorter code, e.g. `to_s` instead of `to_string`, and yet that type signature is very verbose: `sig {params(x: Integer).returns(String)}`
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geraldbauer 2616 days ago
The type signature in (secure) ruby [1] - an alternative ruby (subset) with type (optional) annotation - is `sig Integer => String` or `sig [Integer] => [String]. Since the sig is just ruby you can create an alias for types e.g. I = Integer, S = String and than use sig I=>S, for example. [1]: https://github.com/s6ruby
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lloeki 2616 days ago
Integer and String are the actual classes:

    “foo”.class # => String
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