From: Lyle Johnson <ljohnson@...>
Date: 2001-05-08T04:40:03+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:14800] Re: Polymorphic methods

> Is there a way to duplicate this behavior without resorting to:
>
> def doIt( object )
>     if object.type == String
>     ...
>     elsif object.type == Numeric
>     ...
>     end
> end

In short, nope. That's how to get overloaded functions in Ruby (or Python,
or I suppose any language with dynamic typing).