From: Trans <transfire@...>
Date: 2008-11-18T07:42:08+09:00
Subject: Re: How can I overload a method in Ruby



On Nov 17, 2:22 pm, Joe Wölfel <j...@talkhouse.com> wrote:
> It's interesting that without the feature of overloading the code is  
> both shorter and more readable.

Well, default arguments are a different matter really. That's all that
is needed in this example case, fair enough. But in more complex cases
overloading can be advantageous because it allows for code to be split
up into smaller, more manageable chunks. But Ruby would probably need
to support it internally for the feature to be especially beneficial.
Hmm... I suppose that would require Ruby a bit more like Duby?

  http://blog.headius.com/2008/03/duby-type-inferred-ruby-like-jvm.html

T.