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In article <962@mgt3.sci.UUCP> dc@mgt3.sci.com (D. C. Sessions) writes:
> The upshot of this little affair was the conversion of an entire shop 
> full of C hackers into Modula-2 fanatics, purely because they *never* 
> wanted to give up intermodule type-safety again.

My response is "convert to ANSI C, which gives you intermodule type safety".

> So: for the purposes of the current discussion, how do our ideal 
> dynamically-typed languages ensure that a similar little 
> misunderstanding doesn't happen again?

That's easy: the function that gets a foo wouldn't misinterpret it as being
a bar in the first place. It'd either have kicked out an error, or the test
for bar.magic would have failed.
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