From: Brian Adkins <lojicdotcom@...>
Date: 2008-11-18T06:11:39+09:00
Subject: Re: How can I overload a method in Ruby

James Coglan <jcoglan@googlemail.com> writes:

> [Note:  parts of this message were removed to make it a legal post.]
>
> 2008/11/17 Brian Adkins <lojicdotcom@gmail.com>
>
>> pjb@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon) writes:
>> > Call it: buildWithDirectory(directory)
>>
>> build_with_directory would probably be a more conventional Ruby function
>> name.
>
>
> In this case, this would be more Ruby-idiomatic:
>
> def build(directory = nil)
>   cd directory if directory
>   make
> end

Yes, Pascal already provided a version with default arg values in the
parent.

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