From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto) Date: 2002-09-28T12:46:01+09:00 Subject: Re: R Hi, In message "Re: R" on 02/09/28, William Djaja Tjokroaminata writes: | def a | return @a | end | |the new syntax "def func (Float a, String b, Fixnum c)" is only a |shortcut for | | def func (a, b, c) | raise "type error" unless a.kind_of Float | raise "type error" unless b.kind_of String | raise "type error" unless c.kind_of Fixnum Do you mean you don't care about dispatching? matz.