From: Justin Johnson <justinj@...>
Date: 2002-09-26T20:04:44+09:00
Subject: Re: adding overload to ruby


This means that the dispatcher must find the _closest_ match rather than
just using '==='.

Doing multi dispatch does seem possible, but Matz seems to think it would be
troublesome.  IIRC, other people have shown concerns too.

How would having this feature detriment the language?

--
Justin Johnson

"ts" <decoux@moulon.inra.fr> wrote in message
news:200209261045.g8QAjRG27127@moulon.inra.fr...
> >>>>> "B" == Bulat Ziganshin <bulatz@integ.ru> writes:
>
> B> it will work. "Array === A.new" evaluates to true
>
>  Yes, and in the case
>
>    class A < Array; end
>    def a_method(Array a) end
>    def a_method(A a) end
>
>  it's true for the 2
>
>
> Guy Decoux
>
>
>
>