From: dblack@...
Date: 2002-09-13T04:36:32+09:00
Subject: Re: not grasping the method overloading/multi-dispatch thing

Hi --

On Fri, 13 Sep 2002, Tom Sawyer wrote:

> On Thu, 2002-09-12 at 12:40, Phil Tomson wrote:
> > It _would_ be nice to be able to declare two meth methods as shown above
> > instead of having to test the type of the argument.
>
> yes it would be nice.

[...]

> sounds like a nice feature, it has been mentioned before but now has a
> much better conceptual model to stand on.

Namely... ?

> i think it stands a chance of making ruby more "ruby", rather than less.
> though i understand the trepidation.

The trepidation is that it will make Ruby less "Ruby" :-) I honestly
don't see how it couldn't.  I think the speculation has to be about
whether or not there is room in the world for a language like Ruby, or
whether languages simply have to have explicit typing (in one form or
another) in order to have anything to offer.


David

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