From: Uwe Lammers <Uwe.Lammers@...>
Date: 2001-06-17T19:32:36+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:16556] Method overloading - How?

Hi,

I understand that a weakly-typed language like Ruby cannot
support method overloading based on arguments types, but it could allow
identical method names that differ in the _number_ of arguments:

class Foo
   def initialize
   end
   def initialize(arg)
   end
   def initialize(arg1, arg2)
   end
   ...
end

Is there a way to accomplish this? I suppose making everything optional
is a way but surely not an elegant one:

class Foo
   def initialize(arg1=nil, arg2=nil)
      ...
   end

Uwe Lammers.