• Marcin Kuszczak <aarti interia.pl> Dec 12 2006
• Chris Nicholson-Sauls <ibisbasenji gmail.com> Dec 12 2006

Marcin Kuszczak <aarti interia.pl> writes:

Hello!

I would like to define two kinds of static opCall() in class like below:

static Any opCall(T)(T t) {
        return (new Any()).assign(t);
}

static Any opCall() {
        return new Any();
}

It seems for me properly coded (overloading should work as there is quite a
big difference between function taking no parameters and function taking
one parameter), but compiler complains:

..... : function Any.opCall conflicts with Any.opCall(T) at .....


Is it a compiler bug? Or maybe there is some workaround?

-- 
Regards
Marcin Kuszczak
(Aarti_pl)

Chris Nicholson-Sauls <ibisbasenji gmail.com> writes:

Marcin Kuszczak wrote:
 Hello!
 
 I would like to define two kinds of static opCall() in class like below:
 
 static Any opCall(T)(T t) {
         return (new Any()).assign(t);
 }
 
 static Any opCall() {
         return new Any();
 }
 
 It seems for me properly coded (overloading should work as there is quite a
 big difference between function taking no parameters and function taking
 one parameter), but compiler complains:
 
 ..... : function Any.opCall conflicts with Any.opCall(T) at .....
 
 
 Is it a compiler bug? Or maybe there is some workaround?
 


I don't think its a bug, per se, but an effect of attempting to overload a
function 
template with an ordinary function.  Try providing a dummy specialization of
the template 
instead, such as:

# static Any opCall (T) (T t) {
#   return (new Any).assign(t);
# }
#
# static Any opCall () () {
#   return new Any;
# }

-- Chris Nicholson-Sauls