From: ptkwt@...1.aracnet.com (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2002-09-15T05:05:52+09:00
Subject: Re: not grasping the method overloading/multi-dispatch thing

In article <3b3ad3b4.0209132239.2ceb8d91@posting.google.com>,
Patrick May <patrick-may@monmouth.com> wrote:
>I just got a better idea for RHDL:
> class Signal
>   def call
>       proc{self.to_s}.call
>   end
>   #....
>   def assign_at (relTime=0,nextValue=Proc.new)
>     nextValue = nextValue.call if nextValue.respond_to? :call
>
>     @eventQueue[relTime] = nextValue
>     nextValInQueue = @eventQueue.shift
>     @next_value = nextValInQueue if nextValInQueue
>   end
> 
>   def assign(nextValue=Proc.new)
>       assign_at(0,nextValue)
>   end
>   #....
> end
> 

Patrick,

I tried out your code suggestion in RHDL and it seems to work fine (the 
unit tests still pass ;-).  I like it.  

Thanks.

Phil