Implementing Function Overloading in Python

Re:Implementing Function Overloading in Python by mrkeen on Thursday March 26, 2020 @10:39AM (#22693976)

If you allow both

  int area(int length, int breadth)

and

  float area(int radius)

to exist, then in the future you won't be able ask what the type of 'area' is. (If that's your kind of thing)

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Re:Implementing Function Overloading in Python by zomglings on Thursday March 26, 2020 @12:24PM (#22695189)

You will, the type could be Union[int, float].

Alternatively, you could also use the abstract base classes in the numbers module - https://docs.python.org/3/library/numbers.html

numbers.Number may be a good choice.

Still, you are right, overloading like this may be okay as a thought exercise, but would raise some serious questions during a code review. :)

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