From: Devin Mullins <twifkak@...>
Date: 2006-12-04T12:42:23+09:00
Subject: Re: method overloading like Java?

Daniel Finnie wrote:
> I don't want to do this:
> def foo(arg)
> if arg.type_of? String
>     # do something
> elsif arg.type_of? Numeric
>     #do something
> else
>     raise args error
> end
> end
1. That's the only way to do it.

2. You'd be better served if you considered code like that a smell. If 
you've got a method whose functionality varies _vastly_ based on the 
type of its arguments, then they probably deserve to be separate 
methods, with more descriptive names.

Devin