From: Daniel Berger <djberg96@...>
Date: 2007-03-21T10:38:44+09:00
Subject: Re: does Ruby not support multiple "initialize" methods for

Nando Sanchez wrote:

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> Hi Chad! I don't think Ruby "lacks" anything, it's just that it has a 
> different way of doing things. It's a trade-off between the flexibility 
> of a dynamic language and some other things like methods with same name 
> and different parameters (how are you going to distinguish between one 
> method that uses a string and an integer and another one that uses an 
> integer and a hash, if you don't have types defined at the parameter 
> level?). If you want to do things "like Java" or "like C++", then I 
> think you should open your mind and try to do things in a different way, 
> in a rubbish way.
        ^^^^^^^

I think you mean "ruby-ish". :)

Dan