From: Justin Johnson <justinj@...>
Date: 2002-09-27T00:55:00+09:00
Subject: Re: adding overload to ruby


What sort of ambiguities?

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Justin Johnson

"William Djaja Tjokroaminata" <billtj@z.glue.umd.edu> wrote in message
news:amv8tt$agp$1@grapevine.wam.umd.edu...
> 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!!!
>
>