Re: overloading - need good approach

From: Dmitry A. Kazakov (mailbox_at_dmitry-kazakov.de)
Date: 03/26/05 

Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 09:04:47 +0100

On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 04:49:38 GMT, Thomas G. Marshall wrote:

> Dmitry A. Kazakov coughed up:
>> On Sat, 19 Feb 2005 21:55:20 +0100, Gibby Koldenhof wrote:
>>
>>> I'm designing my own little (typeless) OO language, and I'm sorta
>>> stuck on how to nicely support overloading of methods.
>>
>> As a matter of fact, you cannot have overloading in a typeless
>> language. After all the very way overloading works is based on the
>> type profiles. I also cannot imagine an OO language without types,
>> but well, that's aside.
>
> Consider the two methods, in a typeless language:
>
> public method(param1) {......}
>
> public method(param1, param2) {.......}
>
> Are these overloaded?

Good point.

Arguably this hypothetic language still has [anonymous] function types to
distinguish "method"s at the call point, but I won't insist on that. 

-- 
Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de

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