From: "Mauricio Fernández" <batsman.geo@...>
Date: 2003-06-27T15:00:20+09:00
Subject: Re: method overloading?

On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 02:12:47PM +0900, Donglai Gong wrote:
> Yes, this would solve the problem but it's not ideal or elegant, the 
> code is now much less obvious.
> 
> For example:
> 
> class Bank
>   def open(safe, combination)
>   ...
>   end
> 
>   def open(window)
>   ...
>   end
> end

Why not
class Bank
	def open_safe(safe, combination)
	...
	end

	def open_window(window)
	...
	end
end

I use this for constructors all the time.

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