From: "trans.  (T. Onoma)" <transami@...>
Date: 2004-09-17T21:11:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Automatic class conversion / function overloading

On Friday 17 September 2004 07:44 am, Robert Klemme wrote:
> You can't do that directly.  However have a look at
> http://www.rubygarden.org/ruby?MethodOverloading

That's very interesting. A little aliasing magic? Hmm... (see gears working 
inside tommy's head)

Actually I'm more interested in overloading based on arity, rather then class.


On Friday 17 September 2004 07:52 am, Brian Candler wrote:
> Actually, you're often more interested in what methods an object responds
> to, rather than its class. In the logger example you're more likely to have
>
>   logger.flush if logger.respond_to?(:flush)

Exactly! This is a good practice to get in too.


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