Developer’s Notes
2011-10-19 | Name of Project
This project used to be call Typecast. Maybe that was better than the “silly” Platypus name? But, then again, “typecast” doesn’t quite cover everything this library does.
2010-05-27 | Alias for Overloadable#overload
I am not sure if I like con
, sig
or over
better as a short alias for overload
. I thought of con
becuase of it’s double meaning as Latin for ‘with’ and as an abbreviation for ‘conditional’. But it seems esoteric in practice, perhaps b/c it would be too general a term if we were programming in Spanish. While over
probably makes the most sense in terms of being an abbreviated form of overload
, sig
is the same number of characters as def
and conveys some additional semantics which applies to method overloading –the signature.