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List:       ruby-talk
Subject:    Re: Is better to subclass or to add methods to an existing class?
From:       ts <decoux () moulon ! inra ! fr>
Date:       2002-09-20 6:00:36
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>>>>> "C" == Christoph  <chr_news@gmx.net> writes:

C> This  runs squarely against a prominent argument of the
C>  ``anti multi-method camp''   that Ruby's  ``open classes''
C> (a very descriptive term btw.)  somehow reduce the need
C> of method overloading.

 Well expect that you forget that

  Coercion + Overloading = Chaos

 and ruby has coercion


Guy Decoux

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