Am 24.02.10 12:42, schrieb Michael Rudolf:
First: Thanks for all the replies so far, they really helped me.
Am 24.02.2010 11:28, schrieb Jean-Michel Pichavant:
>>> def a(x=None):
if x is None:
pass
else:
pass
This is the way to do it python, and it has its advantages: 1 docstring,
1 way do do it, 1 interface.
Yes, I see. Actually I do now realize that even in Java I use method
overloading mostly to implement optional arguments anyway, like:
void constructor(){this.foo='foo'; this.initotherstuff();}
void constructor(int x) {this.x=x; this.constructor();}
and so on.
So most of the time the idiom above is exactly what I need, as the
versions of the function share code anyway.
But there are also cases where they do something completely different -
in these cases I might use one of the other solutions provided here or
simply make two or three functions and name them appropiately.
I do now see that the pythonic approach is the "best" for most cases,
but I really loved to see that you *can* do overloading in a convenient
way if you really want to :D Those decorators just rock :D
You can do, see packages such as PEAK rules. They offer not only
type-based overloading, but also value-based.
Diez
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