Sure -- but you would remove compile-time checking and optimization, which has some performance impacts (this moves the object type checks to runtime, vs. compile time, at a performance determent). That would move convenience over performance, where if you allow overloading, the two would be equal.
I'm not saying we would be able to accomplish anything we can't today -- but it would be much more convenient for some to have it available as a resource. -Nick On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 10:09 AM, David Arno <da...@davidarno.org> wrote: > > From: Nicholas Kwiatkowski [mailto:nicho...@spoon.as] > > Sent: 16 January 2012 15:02 > > > public function sendAsString(stringToSend:String):bool > > public function sendAsBool(boolToSend:Boolean):bool > > public function sendAsArray(arrayToSend:Array):bool > > public function sendAsInt(intToSend:int):bool ... > > Could you not just have: > > public function send(value:*):Boolean > > instead? > > David. > >
