From: Josh Cheek <josh.cheek@...>
Date: 2010-04-19T16:34:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Life without Method Overloading?

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On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 12:53 AM, 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?
>
> Or is there a common way Ruby programmers handle this?
>
> Thanks again,
> Derek
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> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
>
>
An easy thing to do is just normalize the data.

def join_strings(a,b)
  a.to_s + b.to_s
end

join_strings 'a' , 'b' # => "ab"
join_strings   1 , 2   # => "12"

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