>  Java (TM), but I don't want to have problem with Sun's lawyers if I
>  forget
> the copyright :-))))

Fair enough.  I have nothing they could weasle out of me :-).

> H> you just not like writing that word?  If the latter, what's a
> "parasitic" H> method?  I've not seen that term used before.
> 
>   http://www.cs.uwm.edu/~boyland/papers/parasitic-methods.html

I obviously don't really understand what the different is between simple
overloaded methods and the concept of multimethods.  I guess I'll do a
quick search to see if I can find some info.  Unfortunately, not being a
member of the ACM, I couldn't download that paper.

> H> This code confused me.
> 
>  modified version of ruby

Ah!