Hi! Rather new to ruby, and I'm not quite sure where to look for the
information I want.

In C++ it's possible to have function overloading... ie

void foo(int a) and void foo(rational a)

Do I have to resort to

def foo(a)
   case a
      when Fixnum ...
      when Rational ...
   end
end

or is there any other way to do this?

....or perhaps a way to do the functional equivalent of C++s

class rational
{
   rational(int a) { ... } // conversion constructor
}

void foo(rational a) should now work for foo(3)



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