From: Donglai Gong <donglai@...>
Date: 2003-06-27T14:31:09+09:00
Subject: Re: method overloading?

What is RAA?  Is there any documentation for it?  Thanks.

Donglai

On Friday, Jun 27, 2003, at 01:21 US/Eastern, Ryan Pavlik wrote:

> On Fri, 27 Jun 2003 13:43:42 +0900
> Donglai Gong <donglai@MIT.EDU> 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
>
> <shameless plug>
>
> The StrongTyping module on RAA lets you do this:
>
>     def foo(*args)
>         overload(args, String) {
>             ...
>             return ...
>         }
>
>         overload(args, String, String) {
>             ...
>             return ...
>         }
>
>         ...
>
>         overload_default args
>     end
>
> Of course, if you don't care what type of object you want
> specifically, you can just say "Object", and you can specify multiple
> types like [String, NilClass].
>
> </shameless plug>
>
>
> -- 
> Ryan Pavlik <rpav@users.sf.net>
>
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>