[omniORB] Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 13:51:26 +0100

[Duncan Grisby]

On Tuesday 22 June, andrew.brown@bt.com wrote:

> 	can anyone help with this problem. I've got a class with two
> methods, print(int) and print(float). Obviously having this syntax in c++ is
> not a problem, but when i define my idl an illegal redefinition error. Does
> anyone know how to define two functions with the same name but different
> parameters in the idl ??

IDL does not permit this. If it did, it would be extremely difficult
to map to languages like C which do not support polymorphic functions.
You should declare different operation names like print_int() and
print_float().

HTH,

Duncan.

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