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		masklinn on Nov 28, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ruby is beautiful (but I'm moving to Python) > I think that is a poor argument since the same is not true of every function What is not true of every function?

binomial on Nov 29, 2010 [–]

I think the GP was referring to "mandating the same function for everything (via a common protocol under the covers) was better than risking people implementing a thousand different method names".

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