From: patrick-may@... (Patrick May)
Date: 2002-09-13T13:22:12+09:00
Subject: Re: not grasping the method overloading/multi-dispatch thing

paul@NoSpAmPlEaSe.argelfraster.org (Paul J. Sanchez) wrote in message news:<86hegvym6h.fsf@daemon.argelfraster.org>... 
> What happens when two programmers, working on different pieces of a
> large project, add different methods with the same name to a base
> class?

they look at the cvs logs, contact each other, and figure out a
solution?

Alternatively, in the more likely situation, what if one programmer
makes a method overly restrictive, forcing the other person to do type
conversions where a guarding .to_type would have sufficed?

~ Patrick