Re: How to do methodsoverloading in

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On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 11:24 AM, Shadowfirebird
<shadowfirebird@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

I must admit that I love Ruby because it manages to combine brevity
with readability (quite a trick!).

But the brevity sort of goes out the window if every method has to
paranoidly check the class of every parameter passed to it.


But why does it have to? Why should it?

http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/articles/2007/10/22/chicken-typing-isnt-duck-typing

--
Rick DeNatale

My blog on Ruby
http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/

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