in reply to Re: perl primary, and keeping multiple languages in your head, and ruby
in thread perl primary, and keeping multiple languages in your head, and ruby
Remind you of SmallTalk.
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It bothers me that Ruby does not support overloading of method.
As I remember, Smalltalk doesn't support method overloading in the way you describe either, so...
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tell:Overloading methods by varying the parameter signatures is handy, but is only one way of approaching the problem. Incidentally, languages such as Perl, Python, Smalltalk (and I presume, Ruby) also won't distinguish different method signatures by their parameter types (to my knowledge), which some languages will...
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