From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2001-01-13T23:12:15+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:9244] Re: polymorphism

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:9242] polymorphism"
    on 01/01/13, Maurice Szmurlo <maurice@europia.fr> writes:

|are there plans to include into ruby method selection 
|by the number of arguments, or in other words polymorphism:

Not really.

I personally do not use the term 'polymorphism' for the concept you
proposed.  But anyway I think the combination of it and optional
argument (and variable number argument) increases program ambiguity.
I'd like to avoid the pitfall C++ suffered.  Any good idea?

							matz.