From: Sebastian Hungerecker <sepp2k@...>
Date: 2007-09-02T22:25:48+09:00
Subject: Re: How does ruby handle overloading?

pongba wrote:
> what concerns me is that if, for
> instance, we have Matrix and Graph, and we'd like to be able to draw
> both of them (the two 'draw's would have the same semantic but
> different implementation logic), how 're we going to be able to
> overload draw on Matrix and Graph like what we do in C++ or Java:
>
> void draw(Matrix);
> void draw(Graph);

def draw(arg)
  if arg.is_a? Matrix
    do_stuff
  elsif arg.is_a? Graph
    do_other_stuff
  end
end

HTH,
Sebastian
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