Re: [Vala] About method overloading, constructor overloading and extension methods

[Aaron Andersen <aaron fosslib net>]

Hello,

One of the reasons that Vala does not support method overloading is  
because it is meant to maintain c compatibility. If someone writes a  
library in Vala and the compiler starts coming up with naming schemes  
that can cause some issues for c users of the library (if the names  
don't make sense).

This issue has been debated several times in the past and given the  
history I don't see it changing.

Aaron

Quoting Steven Oliver <oliver steven gmail com>:

> That is a good question actually. I mean yannick's answer works in this
> overly-simplified case, but overall, is there a technical reason it doesn't
> work this way?
>
> Steven N. Oliver
>
>
> On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 2:06 PM, geovanisouza92 gmail com <
> geovanisouza92 gmail com> wrote:
>
> > Sorry for my mistake. I used the same variable "result". Declaring:
> >
> >     var result = add(2, 3);
> >     var result2 = add(1.2, 3.4);
> > ​
> > Worked fine. Thank you Yannick.
> >
> > But the discussion can continue.
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