Is there a difference between duck typing and structural typing? [duplicate]
This question already has answers here: Type systems: nominal vs. structural, explicit vs. implicit (4 answers) Closed 9 years ago. Duck typing is deciding on the type of an object, based on the operations it supports and the attributes it owns. Structural typing is… the same thing? What exactly is the difference? type-systems duck-typing 1 […]
Why would many duck-typed dynamic programming languages use a class-based approach instead of prototype-based OOP?
Since quite many dynamic programming languages have the feature of duck typing, and they can also open up and modify class or instance methods at anytime (like Ruby and Python), then…