On Aug 22, 2006, at 11:31 AM, Daniel Stenning wrote:
So its a 'hard' problem...In which case Isnt it A good incentive for
differentiating RB from those competitors by incorporating the
feature?. I
think it would be a "nice to have, and since why not just face the
"hard
problems" head on.
Well, that's where the second half of that sentence applies: it is
not clear to me that the change would be a benefit. Overloading is
hard to use precisely when it causes ambiguity, and obscures rather
than clarifying programmer intent. Overloading based on return types
would multiply this ambiguity, at great cost, for what seems to me a
relatively minor improvement in API-design flexibility.
Mars Saxman
REAL Software
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