From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2001-03-01T14:34:27+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:11825] Re: Same method name in same class with diff params?

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:11804] Same method name in same class with diff params?"
    on 01/03/01, "Guerry A. Semones" <gsemones@primary.net> writes:

|Does he have to do a bar(*b) and then handle the case of having / not
|having args from the array inside of the method?  Or perhaps,
|bar(a=nil) - or some other default - for the bar() case?

Yes.  Method overriding may cause serious troubles in dynamic language
like Ruby (unless it uses multiple dispatch like Dylan).

							matz.