From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2000-12-30T12:44:07+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:8326] Re: My first impression of Ruby. Lack of overloading? (long)

jstern@foshay.citilink.com (Josh Stern) writes:

> 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?

It'd have to be a fairly clever hash, as you'd have to be able to deal 
with subclasses.

Tell me again: what problem are we trying to solve here?


Dave