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IMO, having functions that accept different types (when the types are unrelated) is an anti-pattern in most cases, it doesn't matter if you make it more "mainta
by frankpf 9y ago
IMO, having functions that accept different types (when the types are unrelated) is an anti-pattern in most cases, it doesn't matter if you make it more "maintainable" by using single dispatch.
It's fine when you have related types, but in the example
`someFunction` accepts both ThisClass and str, which (I assume) have very different functionality.
You see this anti-pattern a lot in dynamically-typed languages. As an example, both these examples are valid and do the same thing in `knex`, an SQL query builder for node:
knex.select('name', 'email').from('users')
knex.select(['name', 'email']).from('users')