From: Charles Oliver Nutter <charles.nutter@...>
Date: 2008-12-20T03:48:37+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:20705] Re: [Feature #905] Add String.new(fixnum) to preallocate large buffer

Dave Thomas wrote:
> I think the reason I dislike this is that you're creating methods that 
> are polymorphic on the types of their arguments, and yet we generally 
> don't do that in Ruby-level code. So by creating these methods, you're 
> giving them a different flavor from methods that would be written in 
> straight Ruby.

Neither of those methods are polymorphic on anything. They're both new 
methods that accept a Fixnum.