From: Masahiro Tanaka <masa@...>
Date: 2000-12-30T07:33:47+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:8304] Re: My first impression of Ruby. Lack of overloading? (long)

>From: "Christoph Rippel" <crippel@primenet.com>
>Subject: [ruby-talk:8295] Re: My first impression of Ruby. Lack of overloading? (long)

> "> % irb -r complex -r rational
> > irb(main):001:0> 1/Complex(Rational(3,2),1)
> > Complex(Rational(6, 13), Rational(-4, 13))
> Yup,
> 
> but you can (in fact should) templatize your C++ - complex library  ...
> Ruby does not have any significant advantage here over C++.

Sure, not significant here.
But don't you think it's fun to write it without template?

M.Tanaka