Hi -- On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Justin Johnson wrote: > > This means that the dispatcher must find the _closest_ match rather than > just using '==='. > > Doing multi dispatch does seem possible, but Matz seems to think it would be > troublesome. IIRC, other people have shown concerns too. > > How would having this feature detriment the language? See the recent thread, starting at [ruby-talk:49988], on "not grasping the method overloading/multi-dispatch thing". David -- David Alan Black | Register for RubyConf 2002! home: dblack / candle.superlink.net | November 1-3 work: blackdav / shu.edu | Seattle, WA, USA Web: http://pirate.shu.edu/~blackdav | http://www.rubyconf.com