From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2001-05-08T04:42:05+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:14803] Re: Polymorphic methods

"Lyle Johnson" <ljohnson@resgen.com> writes:

> > 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).

Or use double dispatch...