On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 08:20:40PM +0200, TSa wrote: > HaloO, > > John M. Dlugosz wrote: >> In C++, which must be resolved at compile time, the overloading resolution >> mechanism demands that =every= parameter be at least as good of a match, >> and one strictly better match. So the implementation never guesses if >> worse-left/better-right is a better fit than better-left/worse-right. >> However, you are assured that everything is brought to your attention at >> program build time, before run time, so complaining is not as serious as a >> run-time error where you might prefer DWIM. > > Perl 6 is the same, just at runtime with actual types of actual objects. > That's it.
Indeed, Perl 6 threw out Manhattan distance a couple years ago. Do we have to spec everything that Perl 6 ever was but isn't now? :) Larry
