Re: why is overloading invalid in ruby.

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On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 8:48 PM, Ben Bleything <ben / bleything.net> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 11:22 AM, Ted Flethuseo <flethuseo / gmail.com> wrote:
>> I don't understand why when I try to overload I get an error. Can I
>> overload somehow?
>
> Ruby does not support method overloading. Searching the list archives
> should turn up plenty of explanations.

For example the recent thread

http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/vframe.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/377008?376902-377590

and especially

http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/377075

Cheers

robert
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