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tl;dr hacking an unsupported feature (function overloading) into a language that doesn't support it is ugly and/or results in leaky abstractions.
by seabee 15y ago
tl;dr hacking an unsupported feature (function overloading) into a language that doesn't support it is ugly and/or results in leaky abstractions.
- aeroevan 15y agoHe also isn't quite up to speed with Fortran overloading. It is fairly easy to define interfaces that can call different functions based on input type, but it still isn't as nice as C++. http://pastebin.com/1ewMcDaA http://pastebin.com/1ewMcDaA
- slavak 15y agoThe point of the article wasn't so much to bash the feature as it was to show off an impressively sophisticated hack.