From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2003-09-13T10:26:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Mthod redefinition

On Saturday, September 13, 2003, 10:44:02 AM, Meino wrote:

> From: Austin Ziegler <austin@halostatue.ca>
> Subject: Re: Mthod redefinition
> Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2003 07:38:09 +0900

> Hi 

>  Thank you for the explanation of duck typing !
>  Now I have understood, what these little ducks have to do with ruby
>  programming.
 
>  Would it be correct if I would say: Duck typing is more or less
>  equal to providing the code for calling the "same" method of
>  different signatures be hand while C++ and other OOP-languages will
>  do this automagically while compiling the code ?

There's no magic really.  In Ruby, you can only have one definition of
a method.  I think it's pretty ugly to have code inside a method
picking apart the arguments and performing different behaviours.
Sometimes it's unavoidable, sometimes it's OK, but mostly I try a
different approach.

Gavin