From: "Peña, Botp" <botp@...>
Date: 2008-11-17T16:52:34+09:00
Subject: Re: How can I overload a method in Ruby

From: Zhao Yi [mailto:youhaodeyi@gmail.com] 
# ok I understand. Just curious, overload is a good feature in OO 
# programming. Why doesn't Ruby support it? If I use the method you 
# mentioned, I have to check the parameters and use if - else 
# or swith to distinguish them.

maybe because of the ff dilemma:

def m(1)
end

def m("one")
end


ruby will be forced to check type... wc leads to static typing... wc is not matz ruby..

btw, Zhao, can you give us a real case where you really need to do method loading?

kind regards -botp