From: "Mauricio Fernández" <batsman.geo@...>
Date: 2002-09-27T22:11:06+09:00
Subject: Re: adding overload to ruby

On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 06:35:49PM +0900, nobu.nokada@softhome.net wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> At Fri, 27 Sep 2002 07:00:11 +0900,
> Mauricio =?unknown-8bit?Q?Fern=E1ndez?= wrote:
> > One foolish way I can think of would be the following:
> > 
> > def do_foo<sort,bar>(b)
> > # used when b can respond to sort and bar
> > end
> > 
> > def do_foo<each>(b)
> > # when it has method each
> > end
> 
> What about this? ;)
> 
> def do_foo(b {b.respond_to?(:sort) && b.respond_to?(:bar)})
> end

A lighter way to express that is needed, and that's why I think this
kind of overloading is only syntactic sugar :-)

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