From: Harry Ohlsen <harryo@...>
Date: 2001-11-30T04:55:12+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:26953] Re: overload possible?

At this point, I think the mechanism is sufficiently straighforward that
I'd just consider it a programming idiom. Ie, I wouldn't even bother
having a separate class, nor adding an Array#types.

I think that 

   def fred(*args)
      case args.collect { |a| a.type}
         when [Float, Fixnum, String]
              f, i, s = args
              # ...

is sufficiently clear that it stands by itself.

I think this has been a particularly wonderful thread.  It's a really
nice example of taking an idea and moulding it until it feels right (at
least to me).