Re: [Vala] Methods/ctors overloading

["Andrés G. Aragoneses" <knocte gmail com>]

Abderrahim Kitouni escribió:
> Hi,
>
> 2009/11/30 "Andrés G. Aragoneses" <knocte gmail com>:
> > Replying to myself:
> >
> > Andrés G. Aragoneses escribió:
> > > Hello. I'm wondering if the difference between Vala and C# wrt
> > > method/ctor overloading is intentional or is its real support planned in
> It's intentional, one of the main goals of vala is to have libraries
> that can be used from C. So methods must have sensible names (i.e.
> name mangling is not an option)
>
> btw, Vala has named creation methods (a.k.a. named constructors) so
> there is no need for overloading (Yes, it would be useful but not
> necessary)

Useful but not necessary, I agree. So this is why, if I were to help
providing a patch for this, I would make ctor overloading an option, not
dropping support for named constructors. Would that be acceptable?

Thanks,

        Andres

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