From: Justin Johnson <justinj@...>
Date: 2002-09-26T18:44:47+09:00
Subject: Re: adding overload to ruby


> in the same way as does overload.rb - auto-creating typeless
> dispatcher

Could you explain this a little more please?

--
Justin Johnson


"Bulat Ziganshin" <bulatz@integ.ru> wrote in message
news:14683451306.20020926090341@integ.ru...
> Hello Justin,
>
> Wednesday, September 25, 2002, 6:02:55 PM, you wrote:
>
>
> >> not class, but any expression - we can use === to test
>
> >> def a_method( Integer a)
> >> end
> >>
> >> def b_method( Numeric a)
> >> end
>
> JJ> Yes, I thought of this.  This means however that the lookup needs to
work
> JJ> with class hierarchies:
>
> blin! i suggest use '===' for all cases
>
> >> no. if the method definition don't use type specifiers, this method is
> >> not overloaded. as with overload.rb
>
> JJ> Ok, but how does the runtime know wether a method call is overloaded
at the
> JJ> point of call?
>
> in the same way as does overload.rb - auto-creating typeless
> dispatcher
>
> --
> Best regards,
>  Bulat                            mailto:bulatz@integ.ru
>
>