On Wednesday, 11 July 2018 at 16:21:26 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
You'll get an error if you call "foo".
I understand that. Still seems like something that the frontend should detect, unless there's a good use case for multiple (re)definitions. If I had to guess, it's probably to support generic code which may have the same or different type modifiers applied, possibly resulting in a collision.
In my specific case, due to the functions being manipulated by generic code, it led to a harder to diagnose bug, since the functions weren't called directly (or at all, of course). Instead, the openmethods library builds a list of dispatch targets, but it didn't detect at compile-time that the targets were redundant, which led to a *runtime* error, and a harder to diagnose situation. openmethods.d could be changed to deal with that, but it seems like the frontend would be the ideal place to check it, unless D should really support redundant functions.
