From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2003-02-08T13:01:26+09:00
Subject: Re: help overloading operators

Hi,

At Sat, 8 Feb 2003 09:55:23 +0900,
Daniel Carrera wrote:
> This is the code I'm using:
> 
> class Float 
>     alias plus  +
>     def +(other)
>       other.kind_of?(poly) ? other.+(self) : self.plus(other)
>     end
> end
> 
> 
> I don't understand the error.  I defnined "plus" for Float, not for 
> Complex.  Does anyone know how I should be overloading this operator?

I can't reproduce your error.

$ ruby -rcomplex -rpoly -e 'p 2+Complex(1,1)'
Complex(3, 1)
$ ruby -rcomplex -rpoly -e 'p 2.0+Complex(1,1)'
./poly.rb:4:in `+': undefined local variable or method `poly' for 2.0:Float (NameError)
	from -e:1

Apparently, something wrong is in the remain of your code.

-- 
Nobu Nakada