From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2008-07-31T20:08:00+09:00
Subject: Re: How to do methodsoverloading in

Hi --

On Thu, 31 Jul 2008, Shadowfirebird wrote:

> I must admit that I love Ruby because it manages to combine brevity
> with readability (quite a trick!).

I agree.

> But the brevity sort of goes out the window if every method has to
> paranoidly check the class of every parameter passed to it. It's a bit
> of a pain.  But so is the alternative.
>
> I gather from what David says that there's no magic bullet...?

There are two reasons not to check the class of every parameter:

   1. It doesn't work, because objects aren't limited to the behavior
      defined in their classes.
   2. It stops you from thinking more flexibly about how to leverage
      the power of Ruby objects, rather than smothering it.


David

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