From: Oliver Dain <odain2@...>
Date: 2003-10-03T07:28:10+09:00
Subject: Re: newbie question: function overloading

Dimitrios Galanakis wrote:

> 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

Check out the strongtyping module at RAA:

http://raa.ruby-lang.org/list.rhtml?name=strongtyping