From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2001-11-29T15:05:08+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:26869] Re: overload possible?

At Thu, 29 Nov 2001 14:05:00 +0900,
Rich Kilmer <rich@infoether.com> wrote:
> excellent idea...how about this refactoring...

Thank you, but it could `overrun' into the next block, if
return were lost carelessly?

BTW, I think it's better that types are classes themselves not
but their names.  Also it allows non-exact match.

> module Overload
>   def overload(args, *types)
>     return if args.length != types.length
>     args.each_index {|i| return if args[i].type.to_s != types[i].to_s}
      args.each_index {|i| return unless types[i] === args[i]}

>     def hello(*args)
>       overload(args, :Fixnum, :String, :Float) do 
        overload(args, Fixnum, String, Float) do 

Nobu Nakada