From: Florian Gross <flgr@...>
Date: 2005-01-24T23:15:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Is overloading of the "! operator" possible or not

Stephan K�mper wrote:

> Do you mean "overload" or "override"?
> You _override_ a method if you change the behaviour of the method in an 
> ancestor (or singleton object).
> 
> To _overload_ a method means to check the classes/types of the arguments 
> and to use that information to decide which method body to execute.
> Overloading just doesn't cut the mustard in Ruby; IIRC this has been 
> discussed here before.

IMHO these terms are equivalent in Ruby. What the C++ / Java guys 
usually call overloading is typically called Multi Method Dispatch in 
more dynamic languages.