From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2008-03-27T21:09:27+09:00
Subject: Re: Over Loading

2008/3/27, Selvaraj Subbaian <selvaraj@srishtisoft.com>:
>   Question looks like simple Why ruby is not supporting over loading??

You would have to ask Matz for details.  Here are some potential reasons:

- Ruby is dynamically typed which makes overloading based on argument
types impossible; you could only overload on argument list structure
(mostly number of args)

- argument list structure based overloading is seldom useful and in
those cases the implementer can do it himself - no need to burden the
language with this.

- because of Ruby's dynamic nature methods that are overloaded based
on argument type in other languages often fall into one and need not
be overloaded.

>  I think we can pass any number of argument as an array to method. is
>  this the reason or any other ???

This might be part of the reason (see above).

Kind regards

robert

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