From: patrick-may@... (Patrick May)
Date: 2002-09-14T14:25:06+09:00
Subject: Re: not grasping the method overloading/multi-dispatch thing

Here's my best shot:

 class Object
     def to_nextValue
         self
     end
 end

 class Proc
     def to_nextValue
         self.call
     end
 end

 class Signal
 #....
   def to_nextValue
       proc{function.to_s}.call
   end

   def assign_at (relTime=0,function=nil)
     # don't want to extend nilclass, b/c there is bug
     # in the 1.6 interpreter which can cause segfaults.
     # this is a sensible guard, unless this is the wrong
     # behaviour for a false value.
     function ||= Proc.new

     #schedule an event
     @eventQueue[relTime] = function.to_nextValue
     nextValInQueue = @eventQueue.shift
     @next_value = nextValInQueue if nextValInQueue
   end
 
   def assign(function=nil)
       assign_at(0,function)
   end

end

maybe to_nextValue could use a better name, but this may do the trick.
 This is a tough example.

~ Patrick