From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2001-01-15T01:01:41+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:9288] Re: polymorphism

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:9273] Re: polymorphism"
    on 01/01/14, Mathieu Bouchard <matju@cam.org> writes:

|> >I personally do not use the term 'polymorphism' for the concept you
|> >proposed.
|
|But it is. Polymorphism is about dispatching (dynamically or statically).
|Whether it's on the receiver type or the arity / argument type is another
|matter.

In general, yes.  But for several reasons, I give it narrower term
"overloading".

							matz.