From: Christoph <swap@...> (news_chr)
Date: 2003-10-03T14:30:19+09:00
Subject: Re: newbie question: function overloading


"Dimitrios Galanakis" wrote:

....
 > class together and with real numbers). In other words how can I simplify
> the following code by removing the ifs?

Short answer - you can't - the coerce frame-work is probably your best bet
in a single dispatched world. Expect to see more and more `ifs and elses"
the deeper you extend the Numeric class hierarchy. See

http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/51566

for an interesting snippet on Matz's thinking on the subject.


/Christoph