Weirich, James
10/2/2003 8:50:00 PM
> From: Dimitrios Galanakis [mailto:galanaki@uiuc.edu]
> I need to define a method that performs differently when
> operated on objects of different type (overloading).
> Currently I use various if's to check for the type of
> the object as follows:
>
> def somefunction(a)
> if a.kind_of?(someType)
> expression1
> return
> end
> if a.kind_of(someOtherType)
> expression2
> return
> end
> end
I would do it like this ...
class SomeType
def somefunction
expression1
end
end
class SomeOtherType
def somefunction
expression2
end
end
Then just call:
a.somefunction
If you still feel the need to pass obj as an argument to somefunction, you
can always use:
def somefunction(a)
a.somefunction
end
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