Re: RFC 97 (v1) prototype-based method overloading

[Nick Ing-Simmons]

Peter Buckingham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>There are a couple of reasons for overloading. simple arithmetic operations, you
>can use plus(int, int), plus(float, float). another approach is to use
>genericity like in eiffel, and the templates in C++, which is probably better in
>the sense that you only have one function ie plus(<type>, <type>).

And of course perl has plus(<type>,<type>) as its default ;-)

If that is "better" why are we suggesting we change it ?

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Nick Ing-Simmons