"ts" wrote .... > C> Well just to make sure that we are talking about the same thing > C> the ambiguity I am thinking about is nicely described in the first > C> chapter of > C> http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/amiel96fast.html > > It always easy to pre-compute a table when you know *all* possible > calls. Don't forget that ruby is dynamic and that a new definition can be > added at *any time*. It just like the paper since it describes the differences and communality of the multi-dispatch mechanism of CLOS, Cecil and Dylan. /Christoph