From: Paul Brannan <pbrannan@...>
Date: 2002-09-13T23:29:07+09:00
Subject: Re: not grasping the method overloading/multi-dispatch thing

On Fri, Sep 13, 2002 at 02:02:20PM +0900, Patrick May wrote:
> Well, that's the situation we're in now -- you can write methods that
> check the types of their arguments, but it is difficult.  Making it
> easy, then making it difficult doesn't make sense to me.

The goal wasn't to add type checking; it was to add dispatching based on
argument type.

Paul