From: Pit Capitain <pit@...>
Date: 2002-09-11T20:04:55+09:00
Subject: Re: Larry Wall's comments on Ruby

On 11 Sep 2002, at 19:04, ts wrote about reasons against adding 
multi-methods to Ruby:

>  See [ruby-talk:49835]

And in [ruby-talk:49835], Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

> There are two kind of people who use MI.  A part is really smart
> people who understand MI.  Another part is people who are just using
> (or abusing) it.

You could say that of almost every feature of Ruby. I'm sure many 
people using Ruby do not really understand OO, for example (me 
included :-)

> | seriously trying to bolt multi-dispatch
> | onto Ruby might turn out to be a complete disaster or something
> | really wonderful?
> 
> It would change the language.

This is the only argument so far that I might be able to accept, 
although it's hard to do so. Matz certainly has a strong feeling what 
Ruby "is" and what it is not. If he thinks that multi-methods / multi-
dispatch / multiple inheritance change what Ruby "is" and should 
be, there's not much we can do.

Still I would be interested in Guy's implementation of multi-
methods. Would you mind to share your code, Guy?

Regards,
Pit