On 1/16/2012 9:51 AM, David Arno wrote:
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.
I am indifferent to the request. In my earlier days of a programming,
I seem to remember backing myself into a hole of confusion or two b/c of
overloading.
From an implementation stand point, I bet this is something that could
be "Fudged" into the compiler somehow by morphing the code with the use
of the "|...args" |
I personally have no desire to put mind thought into it; but I
wouldn't get in the way of others trying.
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