From: Christopher Dicely <cmdicely@...>
Date: 2010-04-19T15:48:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Life without Method Overloading?

On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 10:53 PM, Derek Cannon
<novellterminator@gmail.com> wrote:
> How do Ruby programmers handle method overloading? In Java, I could
> easily create several methods of the same name that accept a variety of
> input.
>
> I know in Ruby, using *args you can accept an unlimited number of
> parameters. Do I just this with a series of if statements?

Mostly, I think instead of creating several methods of the same name, Ruby
programmers tend to create methods with different names. Some of the use
cases of overloading can also be addressed with optional arguments, trailing
hash arguments, and so on.