From: jstern@... (Josh Stern)
Date: 2000-12-30T12:40:02+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:8324] Re: My first impression of Ruby. Lack of overloading? (long)

Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@zetabits.com> wrote:

>I'd add method overloading according their dynamic type of arguments,
>iff I can think of a specification which is affordable and consistent
>with rest of Ruby.  But I have little hope about this issue.

Well, just to throw something out there...perhaps there
could be a rule that methods with a special name, e.g.
ending with the '|' character, are actually looked
up based on hashing the method name plus the
argument type ids?  


-= Josh