From: Bulat Ziganshin <bulatz@...>
Date: 2002-09-27T15:36:13+09:00
Subject: Re: adding overload to ruby

Hello bbense+comp,

Friday, September 27, 2002, 3:58:44 AM, you wrote:
>>|def do_foo<sort,bar>(b)
>>|# used when b can respond to sort and bar
>>|end
>>
>>I like the *concept* of this idea.

bclrS20tse> - - You should probably look at the extensions NeXT made to
bclrS20tse> Objective C. One of them was the concept of "protocol",

how about Eiffel pre and post conditions?

bclrS20tse> - - I still think multimethod dispatch is evil, but it would be
bclrS20tse> a lot less evil if was based on methods rather than types. 

method name don't guarant anything

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