Re: RFC 98 (v1) context-based method overloading

[email protected] (John Porter) Mon, 14 Aug 2000 14:11:24 -0400

Newsgroups	perl.perl6.language.subs
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David Nicol <[email protected]>:
> 
> The other way C++ allows you to overload a named function is
> by return type.  

This is explicitly incorrect.  The return type is not used in the
resolution of an overloaded function.
That's not to say that it wouldn't be nice to have in perl...

-- 
John Porter