OpenEuphoria

Re: Issue of the week

• Posted by Hawke <mdeland at NWINFO.NET> Oct 01, 1998
• 588 views

Carl R. White wrote:
>This method *isn't* overloading as such.
>Not like in C or Ada anyway.
>It's redefinition. In other languages, it'd
>be interpreted as mutual recursion, which
>Euphoria doesn't handle this way.
hrmmmm.... *ponder*.... ah, ya!, but no... ummm...
*you hear miscellaneous brain fart sounds*
wait, but yeah, hrmmm... ah!, yes, but... wait,no...
*thmoke, thmoke! i thmell thmoke!*
ummm... *think*....  hrmmmmmm....
okay... can we get a definition of mutual recursion
as defined by 1>everyone else & 2>EU ???
that might help me 'get' this...

>>  ...overloading gives me headaches...
>I like overloading.
>Take the following Ada Code:
>  type Dodgy is new Integer;
>  function "*"(Left: Integer; Right: Integer) return Dodgy is
>  begin
>     return Dodgy(Left + Right); -- *Plus*?! Oh dear...
>  end Dodgy;
i reiterate :)
overloading gives me headaches, *especially* when i see
s*it like presented above... redefining '*' as PLUS?
you are simply... evil!... dare i say downright _mean_???
;>

--Hawke'