From: MikkelFJ <mikkelfj-anti-spam@...>
Date: 2002-09-30T00:51:54+09:00
Subject: Re: Larry Wall's comments on Ruby


"Pit Capitain" <pit@capitain.de> wrote in message
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> On 11 Sep 2002, at 19:04, ts wrote about reasons against adding
> multi-methods to Ruby:
>
> >  See [ruby-talk:49835]
>
> And in [ruby-talk:49835], Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
>
> > There are two kind of people who use MI.  A part is really smart
> > people who understand MI.  Another part is people who are just using
> > (or abusing) it.
>
> You could say that of almost every feature of Ruby. I'm sure many
> people using Ruby do not really understand OO, for example (me
> included :-)
>
> > | seriously trying to bolt multi-dispatch
> > | onto Ruby might turn out to be a complete disaster or something
> > | really wonderful?
> >
> > It would change the language.
>
> This is the only argument so far that I might be able to accept,
> although it's hard to do so. Matz certainly has a strong feeling what
> Ruby "is" and what it is not. If he thinks that multi-methods / multi-
> dispatch / multiple inheritance change what Ruby "is" and should
> be, there's not much we can do.
>
> Still I would be interested in Guy's implementation of multi-
> methods. Would you mind to share your code, Guy?
>
> Regards,
> Pit
>