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function overloading with lua

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Offline mattkime

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function overloading with lua
« on: 04 / April / 2009, 23:33:51 »
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in the lua libs i have a couple of functions which perform very similar functions but take different variables. (smartShoot and smartShootWithName)

in some languages, both functions could have the same name and the function would be called depending upon the passed variables. does lua provide for something like this?
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Offline reyalp

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Re: function overloading with lua
« Reply #1 on: 06 / April / 2009, 16:29:43 »
no. Lua function can take varying arguments, so this wouldn't make sense.
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Re: function overloading with lua
« Reply #2 on: 07 / April / 2009, 02:32:32 »
Well, the semantics are different but the result is quite similar...

I don't know if I am pointing you at what's already obvious, but ALL parameters are optional in Lua, and if you skip a parameter this parameter will get a value of nil.
See http://www.lua.org/pil/5.html
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