Re: [Drjava-users] Interactions Pane Question...

[R. M. B. <rmb...@gm...>]

I would think the second definition would be disallowed due to matching
signatures at the time it was interpreted.  Why wait for invocation?

-- Matt

On 3/17/07, Brendan Burns <bre...@gm...> wrote:
>
> Hey Folks,
> I was playing with DrJava and I ran into a feature?/bug? which has me
> confused:
>
> in the interactions pane:
> Welcome to DrJava.  Working directory is /home/bburns
> > int plus(int a, int b) { return a + b; }
> > plus(1,2)
> 3
> > int plus(int a, int b) { return a-b; }
> > plus(1,2)
> AmbiguousFunctionException: Both functions match:
> (koala.dynamicjava.tree.MethodDeclaration:
> ....
>
> In every other interpreter I've ever played around with, the second
> definition of the plus function would overwrite the old definition.
> So my question is:  what is going on? Is it intentional? Is there some
> sort of weird namespace that I'm unaware of?
>
> Thanks
> --brendan burns
>
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