Overload resolution simplification

[Neal Gafter]

On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 2:58 AM, Maurizio Cimadamore <
maurizio.cimadamore at oracle.com> wrote:

> On 12/08/13 10:48, Maurizio Cimadamore wrote:
>
>> people do not write code such as this except to stress your compiler.
>>
> Yes and no. Real people no, of course, but frameworks might. If I recall
> correctly LINQ ran exactly into this problem right? For sure there are
> workarounds, but if we could achieve good results w/o that bit of
> complexity in the model, I think that's good too.


Yes, there was one early LINQ design that was rejected for this among other
reasons.

Cheers,
Neal