From: Christoph Date: 2002-09-28T01:43:03+09:00 Subject: Re: adding overload to ruby .... > - - I still think multimethod dispatch is evil, but it would be > a lot less evil if was based on methods rather than types. Remember that (string based) eval is truly EVIL but we all love it;-) Seriously the ambiguity problems with method based overloading are possibly worse than those of type-based dispatch /Christoph