Re: [xmlvm-dev] Scala and xmlvm2c / Method overloading

[Kensuke M. <mat...@ki...>]

Arno,

Thank you, I understand.

 > The only way to solve this is to name-mangle the
 > return type into the generated C function names. That is a little more
 > than a weekend project.

I thought this can be done by xslt.

Kensuke

On 2012/08/08 2:01, Arno Puder wrote:
>
> this is an interesting problem. The Java language does not permit
> overloading of methods whose signature only differ in the return type.
> However, due to type erasing it can happen that on byte-code level you
> end up having two methods that only differ in their return type and the
> JVM can handle this. There has been a debate whether this should be
> permissible or not and the semantics in Java 7 have changed: In Java 7,
> the arguments need to be different *after* type erasure. Here is a nice
> writeup that explains this better than I could:
> http://notatube.blogspot.com/2010/07/interesting-change-to-method-signature.html
>
> So, wrt Java 7, XMLVM is doing the right thing, which of course doesn't
> solve the Scala issue. The only way to solve this is to name-mangle the
> return type into the generated C function names. That is a little more
> than a weekend project.
>
> Arno
>
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