Re: [Caml-list] Duplicate methods - bug or feature?

[Paul Stodghill <stodghil@cs.cornell.edu>]

While I understand how this is handy in the case of multiple
inheritance, I don't see how this is useful when both methods are in the
same class. I think that if duplicates methods appear in a class, then
it is very likely to be an error. At a minimum, a warning should be
issues that the first method will be ignored.

I bring this up, because I just tracked down a bug in some of my own
code that resulted from two methods with the same name existing in the
same class. It was a "cut and paste" error on my part.

Thanks.


> You might consider it a feature, due to multiple inheritance. IIRC, when
> a class inherits from two classes which define the same method name, the
> last one wins.
> 
> Alan Schmitt
> 
> * Paul Stodghill (stodghil@cs.cornell.edu) wrote:
> > Is it a bug or feature that a class can contain two methods with the
> > same name? Thanks.
> > 
> > milhouse$ uname -a
> > CYGWIN_NT-5.0 MILHOUSE 1.3.2(0.39/3/2) 2001-05-20 23:28 i686 unknown
> > milhouse$ ocamlc -v
> > The Objective Caml compiler, version 3.02
> > Standard library directory: /usr/local/lib/ocaml
> > milhouse$ 
> > milhouse$ 
> > milhouse$ cat double_method.ml 
> > class a =
> > object
> >   method m = "a.m1"
> >   method m = "a.m2"
> > end
> > ;;
> > 
> > let _ =
> >   let x = new a in
> >     Printf.printf "x=%s\n" x#m;
> >     ()
> > ;;
> > 
> > milhouse$ 
> > milhouse$ 
> > milhouse$ ocamlc -o double_method.exe double_method.ml 
> > milhouse$ ./double_method.exe 
> > x=a.m2
> > milhouse$ 
> > 
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