From: Shadowfirebird <shadowfirebird@...>
Date: 2008-07-30T23:35:27+09:00
Subject: Re: How to do methodsoverloading in

> How do you polymorph without overloading a method?

Well, okay.  I was taking overloading to mean, defining two methods
with the same name (but different signatures) *in the same class*.
And I hope you will agree that you don't need to do *that* to
polymorph.

(A quick "google define" seems to bear me out on this, BTW, but by all
means let us agree to have slightly different definitions of some
words.  I'm with Humpty-Dumpty on this.)

class Root
   ...
   def me; puts "I'm a Root"; end
end

class One < Root
   ...
   def me; puts "I'm a One"; end
end

class Two < Root
   ...
   def me; puts "I'm a Two"; end
end

...and there you go; polymorphism in Ruby.   At least, in my naieve
understanding...