Re: optional argument versus subroutine overloading

Steve Lionel wrote:
| reubendb wrote:
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|| Is function/subroutine overloading actually resolved
|| during compilation, or during run time, as in the case of presence
|| test ?
|
| Overloading is typically resolved at compile time. I'd be astonished
| if any implementation did it differently.

....and testing for presence of optional arguments, while not "free",
is extremely cheap. Thus, no real performance concerns in any case.


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