Local function overloading

[monarch_dodra]

On Saturday, 12 April 2014 at 16:45:02 UTC, Philpax wrote:
> While trying to overload a function in local/function scope, I 
> ran into this behaviour: http://dpaste.dzfl.pl/b4e8b9ddf78a and 
> I was wondering what the cause was.
>
> As far as I can tell, this should be fine in global scope (and 
> it is), but I'm curious as to why it doesn't work inside a 
> function.

I *think* it has something to do with how name-mangling is done. 
I don't know the details. I know you can workaround it by putting 
your functions a static members of a dummy struct: 
http://dpaste.dzfl.pl/268e3d2d4427

class A {}
class B {}

void main()
{
	static struct Dummy
	{
		static void func2(A a){}
		static void func2(B b){}
	}
	alias func2 = Dummy.func2;
	A a;
	func2(a);
}