Here’s a nice pitfall I just encountered. Consider a list of integers: List<Integer> list = new ArrayList<Integer>(); list.add(5); list.add(6); list.add(7); list.add(1); Any educated guess on what happens when you...
Coming from C++ background 😉 How can I overload PHP functions? One function definition if there are any arguments, and another if there are no arguments? Is it possible...
I am trying to implement method overloading in Python: class A: def stackoverflow(self): print 'first method' def stackoverflow(self, i): print 'second method', i ob=A() ob.stackoverflow(2) but the output is...
Lets say I have a concrete class Class1 and I am creating an anonymous class out of it. Object a = new Class1(){ void someNewMethod(){ } }; Now is...
Why don’t more mainstream statically typed languages support function/method overloading by return type? I can’t think of any that do. It seems no less useful or reasonable than supporting...
Is there any way to achieve function overloading in C? I am looking at simple functions to be overloaded like foo (int a) foo (char b) foo (float c...
I know that Python does not support method overloading, but I’ve run into a problem that I can’t seem to solve in a nice Pythonic way. I am making...
I’m curious to see if you can overload controller methods in ASP.NET MVC. Whenever I try, I get the error below. The two methods accept different arguments. Is this...
Section 6.3 of the TypeScript language spec talks about function overloading and gives concrete examples on how to implement this. However if I try something like this: export class...
In terms of Java, when someone asks: what is polymorphism? Would overloading or overriding be an acceptable answer? I think there is a bit more to it than that....