From: MikkelFJ <mikkelfj-anti-spam@...>
Date: 2002-10-22T05:14:42+09:00
Subject: Re: Duck patterns in Ruby


"Simon Strandgaard" <0bz63fz3m1qt3001@sneakemail.com> wrote in message
news:20021021094724.08fbbc13.0bz63fz3m1qt3001@sneakemail.com...

> Yes, this is pattern-matching ala Standard ML, this is realy nice ;-)
> also know as multimethods, double dispatch, visitor.
>
>
> [snip]
>
> What are your question ?
> do you want multimethods ?

I neither want or do not want multimethods. It was just an idea I wanted to
share. I though it was original because I haven't seen any kind of pattern
matching working on supported methods before.
I don't think this is the same as multimethods - one reason being that the
technology is not assocatiated with formal function arguments - although it
could be used there as well.

Mikkel