Path: news.daimi.aau.dk!news-feed.inet.tele.dk!news.maxwell.syr.edu!fu-berlin.de!news-ber1.dfn.de!news-ham1.dfn.de!news-han1.dfn.de!news-koe1.dfn.de!RRZ.Uni-Koeln.DE!news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de!news.chemietechnik.uni-dortmund.de!Uni-Dortmund.DE!Dortmund.Germany.EU.net!dortmund.de.uu.net!Informatik.Uni-Dortmund.DE!news From: Holger Tuerk Newsgroups: comp.lang.beta Subject: Re: Method overloading in BETA Date: Thu, 06 Nov 1997 11:50:33 +0100 Organization: CS Department, University of Dortmund, Germany Lines: 12 Message-ID: <3461A0F9.3752@marvin.informatik.uni-dortmund.de> References: <63r2ti$qfq@server.cs.vt.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: marvin.informatik.uni-dortmund.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4u) Xref: news.daimi.aau.dk comp.lang.beta:11285 Hello, Siva Challa wrote: > I am new to the BETA language. I have a general question. Is 'method > overloading' allowed in BETA? If 'method overloading' means that different methods with the same name are invoked depending on the number and types of the arguments you passed, the answer is no. You have to choose different designations for your patterns. Holger