At 7:31 AM -0700 9/4/02, David Wheeler wrote:
>On Wednesday, September 4, 2002, at 06:58 AM, Dan Sugalski wrote:
>
>>No. They can be both compile time things or runtime things,
>>depending on the characteristics of the language.
>
>So if it's compile-time for a given language, how is it different
>from the Java concept of overloading?
It probably isn't, though I'm unfamiliar enough with Java to say for sure.
>And will Perl 6 do it at compile-time or at run-time?
Runtime. There's no way we could do it at compile-time--too much uncertainty.
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