Adding overloaded methods

[Ali Çehreli]

On 02/21/2012 06:21 PM, BLM wrote:
> I'm working on a project where I'm using overloaded virtual methods, and I've
> run into a challenge with overload sets.
>
> My code looks something like this:
>
> class Base {
>   void get(ubyte b) {};
> }
>
> class Derived: Base {
>   //alias Base.get get;
>   void get(string s) {};
> }
>
> I've tried using an alias declaration to combine the two classes' overload
> sets in the derived class, but DMD complains that the alias conflicts with
> get(string). Is there some reasonably elegant way around this, or is it a
> limitation of the language?

Your code actually works with dmd 2.058:

import std.stdio;

class Base {
     void get(ubyte b) {
         writeln("get(ubyte)");
     }
}

class Derived: Base {
     alias Base.get get;
     void get(string s) {
         writeln("get(string)");
     }
}

void main()
{
     ubyte b;
     string s;

     auto o = new Derived();
     o.get(b);
     o.get(s);
}

Outputs:

get(ubyte)
get(string)

I have also corrected the indentation ;) and two extraneous semicolons.

Ali