Re: [GENERAL] Re: Drop all overloads of a function without knowing parameter types

2014-02-04 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Tue, Feb 04, 2014 at 10:56:28AM -0800, David Johnston wrote: > If you are doing version controlled upgrades you should not be using this > function but during the R&D phase I can imagine it would come in quite > handy. Or add Tom's remarks to a little corner of contrib/, or as Tom suggested, th

Re: [GENERAL] Re: Drop all overloads of a function without knowing parameter types

2014-02-04 Thread Evan Martin
On 04/02/2014 19:56, David Johnston wrote: No, they cannot. If the arguments change you are dealing with an entirely new object. And often you end up keeping the old function around for backward-compatibility. Of course, I understand that it's a different object, technically, but from the user

Re: [GENERAL] Re: Drop all overloads of a function without knowing parameter types

2014-02-04 Thread Stephen Frost
* David Johnston (pol...@yahoo.com) wrote: > Evan Martin wrote > > So I don't agree with the suggestion of matching function names using a > > regex, since that's not supported for other types of objects. To explain > > the use case a little better: Uh, we could add such support, which might be