From: Kent Dahl <kentda@...>
Date: 2001-11-28T22:52:50+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:26786] Re: overload possible?

Masanori Fujita wrote:
> is it possible to define Ruby methods with the same names but different
> number of arguments (overload concept in other languages) ?

Not in the language itself, you'll have to do the dispatch inside your
method yourself. 

There have been some posts earlier on various ways of doing this (and
doing type based overloading too), but basically they just help you
doing the dispatch easier, they don't add overloading to the language.

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