Bombay duck Mail (or Bombay "Daak") thus reeked of the fish smell and "You smell like the Bombay Daak" was a common term in use in the days of the British Raj. In Bombay, the local English speakers then called it so, but it was eventually corrupted into "Bombay duck". Nonetheless, the "Oxford English Dictionary" dates "Bombay duck" to at least 1850, two years before the first railroad in Bombay was constructed, making this explanation unlikely. According to local Bangladeshi stories, the term Bombay duck was first coined by Robert Clive, after he tasted a piece during his conquest of Bengal. He
Duck typing more clearly. To proponents of static type checking, duck typing suggests the "absence" of typing, making its incorporation of the term "typing" appear incoherent. Duck typing Duck typing in computer programming is an application of the duck test—"If it walks like a duck and it quacks like a duck, then it must be a duck"—to determine if an object can be used for a particular purpose. With normal typing, suitability is determined by an object's type. In duck typing, an object's suitability is determined by the presence of certain methods and properties, rather than the type of the object itself.