From: Paul Brannan <pbrannan@...>
Date: 2002-09-13T23:26:26+09:00
Subject: Re: not grasping the method overloading/multi-dispatch thing

On Fri, Sep 13, 2002 at 01:22:16PM +0900, Patrick May wrote:
> # asserts
> anArray.assert_includes( anotherArray )

Why should this be in the Array class?  What's wrong with:

  Assert.assert_includes(anArray, anotherArray)

(same goes for most of the other examples; they really don't belong in
the classes you've placed them).

> # formating
> aString.to_title_widget

Is this widget a Fox widget or a QT widget?  What happens if two
programmers both write a to_title_widget method, one that creates a QT
widget and another that creates a Fox widget?  One programmer's code is
likely to break.

Paul