From: Christoph <chr_news@...>
Date: 2002-09-12T04:58:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Multimethods (was Re: Larry Wall's comments on Ruby)

"Justin Johnson" wrote
....
> I'd be interested to see if anyone could come up with some satisfactory
> syntax with regards to implementing multi-dispatch in Ruby.

Well the following is commonly used  (Matz does not like it
if I remember correctly)

  <(a,b)>.atan

or  if you declare new key words like pair,multi,sym or alt
you could write for example

   multi(a.b).atan(), pair(a,b).atan  or   multi(a,b,c).mth(d,e,*f)

If you prefer a more conventional look how about

  a.atan(b;)  or    a.mth(b,c ; d , e, *f)  ?


/Christoph