From: Charles Oliver Nutter <headius@...>
Date: 2011-01-29T04:47:34+09:00
Subject: Re: why is overloading invalid in ruby.

On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 11:41 AM, Adam Prescott <mentionuse@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 5:13 PM, Charles Oliver Nutter
> <headius@headius.com>wrote:
>
>> And it would be even cooler if Ruby supported some form of type-driven
>> pattern matching, so you could have different method bodies for
>> different input types rather than checking them over and over again.
>> But that's a post for another day :)
>>
>
> Not very quackish.

Neither are case/when statements like this:

case obj
when String ...
when Regexp ...
end

But sometimes that's what you need to do.

- Charlie