• Ellery Newcomer <ellery-newcomer utulsa.edu> Aug 11 2009
• "Lars T. Kyllingstad" <public kyllingen.NOSPAMnet> Aug 12 2009

Ellery Newcomer <ellery-newcomer utulsa.edu> writes:

Why is function overloading not applied to nested functions?

"Lars T. Kyllingstad" <public kyllingen.NOSPAMnet> writes:

Ellery Newcomer wrote:
 Why is function overloading not applied to nested functions?



Good question. Intuitively it seems to me that they should act just like 
other functions. I couldn't find anything about it in the spec, but I 
found this (on the "Functions" page):

     Unlike module level declarations, declarations within
     function scope are processed in order. This means that
     two nested functions cannot mutually call each other:

     void test()
     {
         void foo() { bar(); }    // error, bar not defined
         void bar() { foo(); }    // ok
     }

Perhaps this also causes problems with overloading?

-Lars