[jira] Commented: (BOO-250) overloaded functions cannot be "first class functions"

    [ http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/BOO-250?page=comments#action_47559 ] 

Rodrigo B. de Oliveira commented on BOO-250:
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this sounds interesting, specially as a way to enable multimethods:

class Foo:
    def bar(a as int):
       print a
    def bar(a as string);
       print a

a = functionReturningObject()
f = Foo()
// today
(f as duck).bar(a)

// with your proposal
(f.bar)(a)

interesting...

> overloaded functions cannot be "first class functions"
> ------------------------------------------------------
>
>          Key: BOO-250
>          URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/BOO-250
>      Project: Boo
>         Type: Bug
>   Components: Compiler
>     Versions: 0.5
>  Environment: Latest SVN.
>     Reporter: Arron Washington
>     Assignee: Rodrigo B. de Oliveira
>      Fix For: 0.5.6

>
>
> Functions that are overloaded (such as double.Parse and string.Format) cannot 
> be used as first class functions because the compiler cannot resolve to any 
> one of the overloaded functions.

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