From: William Djaja Tjokroaminata <billtj@...>
Date: 2002-09-27T00:34:55+09:00
Subject: Re: adding overload to ruby

Hi,

I agree, but we have to be careful about the consequence of
multi-dispatch.  In C++, this was accomplised using name mangling of the
function; hopefully this needs not happen in Ruby.  But still, I think we
need to deal with how to resolve ambiguities in multi-dispatch, which I
think in C++, being a typed language, was complicated enough.

Regards,

Bill
==========================================================
Christoph <chr_news@gmx.net> wrote:
> "Justin Johnson" wrote
> Lets repeat this again:

>     muli-dispatch !=  type-safety issues  of langue like C/C++ or Java

>> I don't see how adding this feature for multi-dispatch decreases the
>> flexibility/dynamicness of Ruby - only enhances it.

> Well said!!!