From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2002-09-12T05:37:43+09:00
Subject: Re: Multimethods (was Re: Larry Wall's comments on Ruby)

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Brannan" <pbrannan@atdesk.com>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2002 2:53 PM
Subject: Re: Multimethods (was Re: Larry Wall's comments on Ruby)


> > No, I'm referring to a case where the receiver type is
> > fixed, and the parameter type varies.
> 
> The receiver of the first method call is fixed; the receiver of <<
> varies.  You were able, in this case, to easily divide the operation
> into two parts; one on the receiver and one on the parameter.  I'm not
> convinced that's always feasible.

Oh, OK, I see.
 
> I'm also not conviced that multimethods belong as part of Ruby itself;
> it seems they might work well in a library.

I'd love to see that. I'd try it then.

I'm willing to be convinced I need this feature -- I'm
just not there yet.

Often I don't know I need something until I suddenly
have it. Then it's indispensable. Guess I'm just a
Blub programmer at heart. It *is* Blub, isn't it? :)

Hal