From: Bulat Ziganshin <bulatz@...>
Date: 2002-09-26T14:24:42+09:00
Subject: Re: adding overload to ruby

Hello Christoph,

Wednesday, September 25, 2002, 11:23:30 PM, you wrote:

C> This is not necessarily true - You could make the
C> the overridden arguments part explicit. For example
C> we might write

C>    f(i, am , a, the overridden, part ; rest, of, the, *arguments )

no, using at least one type (pattern) specifier will be sign that
function is overloaded. this type can be Object :)

>> 3. Bignum and Fixnum.  Conversion between these are automatic.  How does
>> this affect specialization?

C> As much as I like to argue with Guy over over overloading;-)
C> I agree with him that mixing automatic conversion  and
C> overloading is a very bad idea  (so bad that rather not have
C> any overloading at all)

ruby don't have autoconversion between these two or any other types. i
think, he just say that fixnum+fixnum can be fixnum or bignum, but
it's not autoconversion. and i never say about autoconversion for
overloaded functions

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