On Wednesday, 14 November 2012 at 19:12:59 UTC, Timon Gehr wrote:
On 11/14/2012 06:43 PM, foobar wrote:
On Tuesday, 13 November 2012 at 21:34:28 UTC, Rob T wrote:
I'm wondering why overloading has been implemented to only
match on
the argument list rather than the full signature which
includes the
return type? I know I would use it if it was available.
I'm not requesting this to be a feature of D, I'm only asking
why it
is not being done.
--rt
This is hardly a new idea. It was implemented in a few
languages of the
70's and it proved to be adding complexity and generally not
worth the
trouble.
I guess they just were not doing it right then.
No language nowadays bothers with this based on those past
lessons.
Haskell.
> fromInteger 2 :: Float
2.0
I thought that Haskell doesn't have function overloading (which
simplifies this greatly)... Anyway, I mostly meant "standard"
imperative/OO languages. Sorry for the confusion.
