From: Daniel Carrera <dcarrera@...>
Date: 2003-06-27T13:47:17+09:00
Subject: Re: method overloading?

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Does this help?:

def my_method(*args)
    if args.length == 2
	two_parameters_method(args)
    elsif args.length == 3
	three_parameters_method(args)
    end
end

On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 01:43:42PM +0900, Donglai Gong wrote:
> Is there a way to implement method overloading in ruby?  Naively I just 
> defined two methods with the same name with different number of 
> parameters...Ruby didn't like that.
> 
> Donglai
> 

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