* Jiří Zárevúcky wrote, On 12/01/10 14:43:
Sam Liddicott píše v Út 12. 01. 2010 v 07:25 +0000:
Overloading could easily be supported with mandatory cname or csuffix
attributes; that an explicit name needs to be given for C is no reason that it
needs to be given for vala which could do regular overloading.
I think it ought to be supported.
Sam
That's a matter of opinion. If Vala supported it, people would start
using cnames like "lib_class_some_action", "lib_class_some_action2",
"lib_class_some_action3", etc. Overloading exists because people are
lazy, ain't that true? :) Even if they wouldn't, it would still make
things considerably messier IMO (I, for one, do like the way I can use
most C libraries without separate Vala docs or searching VAPI).
The point is that although the user needs to come up with alternative
names, vala doesn't need to use them, and so the official reason for not
supporting overloading is nonsense.
You present a new reason, that users who are idiots, will chose idiotic
names. Such users may do this anyway...
But anyway, if you really want it, you could just implement it and send
it to Jürg for approval.
I've played that game before, and lost. There's no point in working on
any feature if it is not in accordance with Jürg's vision for the language.
Just think whether you really need it. From my
POV, it's pointless.
I have my own reasons for distrusting it, how will overloading work with
automatic type promotions, maybe at one instant the int value passed as
an argument gets upgraded to a long int, but later someone overloads for
int - your code now has a different code path without you expecting it,
lets hope the new code path works like the old one. Of course the user
should make it like that, but automatic type promotion and overloading
worry me.
But despite that, I find it useful. Who wants to keep repeating the type
of an argument on the end of a function name? It's the last vestige of
lpcszName type notation. Such information belongs in the computer and
shown with nice markup.
BTW, please use a mail client that supports message threads. :)
Sorry - stinkin pocket outlook :-(
Sam
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