At 7:31 AM -0700 9/4/02, David Wheeler wrote: >On Wednesday, September 4, 2002, at 06:58 AM, Dan Sugalski wrote: > >>No. They can be both compile time things or runtime things, >>depending on the characteristics of the language. > >So if it's compile-time for a given language, how is it different >from the Java concept of overloading?
It probably isn't, though I'm unfamiliar enough with Java to say for sure. >And will Perl 6 do it at compile-time or at run-time? Runtime. There's no way we could do it at compile-time--too much uncertainty. -- Dan --------------------------------------"it's like this"------------------- Dan Sugalski even samurai [EMAIL PROTECTED] have teddy bears and even teddy bears get drunk