[antlr-interest] Help w/ Function Overloading

Paul Johnson gt54-antlr at cyconix.com
Tue Aug 9 08:10:01 PDT 2005


Peggy Fieland wrote:
> Bryan,
> 
> How about the c++ scheme, which ties the function
> signature to the return type and the types of the
> parameters (mangling/demangling)? 

<pedantic>
C++ doesn't actually consider the return type.
</pedantic>

I have a scheme where the number of formal parameters is appended to the 
function name to give a signature for the symbol table lookup. This 
handles pretty much all the complexity required for overloading in my 
case, but it's a pretty simple language.

Paul



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