Re: Function overloading in perl

Losely typed languages (like Perl). Have a difficult time implementing overloading. If I had this code:

my $a = 1;

print OVERLOADED;

sub OVERLOADED{
  #This sub wants a char array
  return (shift eq "one"?1:0);
}

sub OVERLOADED{
  #This sub is illegal in Perl
  #This sub wants an int
  return (shift == 1?1:0);
}
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Note that the very things that I would use to define overloading are not avalible. The same thing goes for lists.

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Re^2: Function overloading in perl by Anonymous Monk on Sep 07, 2010 at 22:17 UTC
In perl, you have to do things the perl way, which means you can only have sub OVERLOADED `sub OVERLOADED { ## do different things depending on arguments }` [download] you can't blindly copy the c/c++ concept of function signatures/overloading and expect it to work	[reply] [d/l]