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Jochen Theodorou commented on GROOVY-11627:
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[~emilles]
"""
When I change this method to private, b.m("string") still works the same,
however b.dispatch("string") changes behaviour.
"""
yes, that is exactly what I am talking about. Dispatching methods from A must
not see private methods in B, but everything else will. If you now have an
overload in B of public m(String) and private m(Integer), then dispatch in A
sees only the non-private one and a call dispatch(1) should trigger the object
case. In Java none of the two would be available in A of course. If you add
the overload with the public and private method you should also get the
warning.
If you simply lift the check I do not know if the private method in B can be
called from A or not. We may do "the right thing" here and it is not possible.
Just didn't want to open that can of worms back then.
> Compile Error when private and public functions use same name in compile
> static mode
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>
> Key: GROOVY-11627
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GROOVY-11627
> Project: Groovy
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Compiler, Static compilation
> Affects Versions: 5.0.0-alpha-12
> Reporter: Saravanan
> Assignee: Eric Milles
> Priority: Minor
>
> When I define a class in Groovy with 2 methods with the same name, one
> private and one public, I get this error during static compilation
> {quote}Mixing private and public/protected methods of the same name causes
> multimethods to be disabled and is forbidden to avoid surprising behaviour.
> Renaming the private methods will solve the problem.
> {quote}
> I understand the need for multi methods and dispatching with runtime types,
> but how can I disable this behaviour? I am using @CompileStatic and it still
> hits this error
> Per Jochen
> {quote}CompileStatic does not support multi methods, so I totally agree that
> this message should not appear for static compiled classes.
> {quote}
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