From: Phillip Gawlowski <cmdjackryan@...>
Date: 2011-08-26T21:29:38+09:00
Subject: Re: overloading methods question please?

On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 2:24 PM, Alexey Muranov
<muranov@math.univ-toulouse.fr> wrote:
>
> Having multiple methods with the same name and choose one based on the
> argument's class is not possible in Ruby.

Not as inbuilt language feature, anyway.

But with OO design, you can fake it, and dispatch method calls
semi-transparently*.

I'll leave the implementation of this Abomination of All That's Object
Oriented to the reader, though.

*"semi-transparent" since any implementation of such a thing _will_
blow up in your face, with hilarious results thanks to the lack of
static typing.
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