I have noticed that the most popular request so far for an enhancement to AS3 is method overload. To quote Bertrand Meyer (http://drdobbs.com/184414874):
"Overloading, the most masochistic device ever introduced, means that you can give the same name to several methods as long as they differ by at least one argument type. This is a rare example of a facility that has no known advantage, and many documented problems (it's confusing, and conflicts with object-oriented mechanisms such as polymorphism and redefinition)." I'm in full agreement with the above quote. I think it is good that AS3 doesn't allow method overloading. Yet it is a popular request, so clearly other folk disagree with this. I'm therefore curious to know why people are requesting what ought - IMO - to be viewed as a bad thing. David.
