From: Benjohn Barnes <benjohn@...>
Date: 2006-04-06T06:31:10+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Weekly News 27th March - 2nd April 2006


On 4 Apr 2006, at 23:13, Tim Sutherland wrote:

> In article <20060404213120.GB3504@tux-chan>, Mauricio Fernandez wrote:
>> On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 07:33:48PM +0900, Tim Sutherland wrote:
>>> http://www.rubyweeklynews.org/20060402.html
> [...]
>> As I said under that thread, I think this (proposal for multi- 
>> method support)
>> is yet another April 1st joke. I'm subscribed to ruby-dev and the  
>> message
>> referred to in in that summary ([ruby-dev:28533]) doesn't exist:  
>> indeed, the
>> last message is [ruby-dev:28505] as of Wed, 5 Apr 2006 03:30:04  
>> +0900.
>>
>> Maybe it would be better to clarify that for the record.
>
> I fell for it, doh! I've updated the site.

Heh - I thought it sounded like an excellent approach! I particularly  
liked the idea of using the === operator (that I've started to think  
of as a predicate acceptance test - it makes the receiver behave as a  
predicate, and the argument is matched for satisfying the predicate)  
for the matching. Really very similar to a case statement, but  
extensible, I suppose.