From: Dimitrios Galanakis <galanaki@...>
Date: 2003-10-03T03:47:37+09:00
Subject: newbie question: function overloading

I need to define a method that performs differently when operated on objects
of different type (overloading). Currently I use various if's to check for
the type of the object as follows:

def somefunction(a)

   if a.kind_of?(someType)
      expression1
      return
   end

   if a.kind_of(someOtherType)
      expression2
      return

end


i am wondering if there is a simpler way to implement that without the if's,
in a way similar to C++ overloading. I mean I would like to define two
functions with the same name that will somehow be aware of the type of
their argument...

sincerely,

DG