Yuval Kogman wrote:
As I understand it SMD is now not much more than a mechanism to place a constraint on the MMD, saying that there can only be one method or subroutine with the same short name. Why is this the default?
Otherwise you lose this quite useful warning if the signatures didn't match; method foo redefined at ... I agree with you MMD is very cool, and I use it a lot. But I don't mind clarifying the intent with "multi"; this "overloading" is considered by some to be surprising to new programmers. Sam.
