On 7/10/07, Eric Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why can't you have overloading in a dynamically typed language?
Because of the overhead of performing overload resolution - which you'd have to do at runtime in a dynamic language. Read this for more details: http://corfield.org/entry/Overloading_is_not_OO > If I remember correctly from my C days, you can overload in C... No, you can't. C did have a little magic to allow a very limited amount of 'fudging' this in the Standard library however... -- Sean A Corfield -- (904) 302-SEAN An Architect's View -- http://corfield.org/ "If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive." -- Margaret Atwood ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 The most significant release in over 10 years. Upgrade & see new features. http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion?sdid=RVJR Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:283439 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
