Color handling in AS3 is a mess.. is it hex, uint, string, or an object? In an application, it could be all three or null or nothing or empty. Meh.
Overloading for concrete handling would be very helpful in this particular case and would get rid of Object or * as a go-to parameter type. On Jan 16, 2012 9:50 AM, "David Arno" <da...@davidarno.org> 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. > >
