On Aug 22, 2006, at 10:49 AM, Jan Erik Moström wrote:
I suppose I should add this as a feature suggestion but before
doing that, is it
technically possible to add overloading/method identification based
on the full
signature in RB?
It would probably be possible to modify the REALbasic language such
that overloading on return types would make sense, but it is not at
all likely that this will ever happen. There are some hard problems
involved, and it's not clear to me that the change would be a net
benefit.
Neither Java, C++, C#, nor Visual Basic.NET, all of which support
overloading, include the return type as part of the method signature.
I suspect that the designers of those languages encountered similar
obstacles.
Mars Saxman
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