rokucommunity / rokucommunity/brighterscript
Overloaded function signatures
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- TypeScript
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Description
Add support for function overloads. These would be available in the type system and at compile-time only. They do NOT produce duplicate/multiple functions.
Basically do exactly what TypeScript did: https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/2/functions.html#function-overloads
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Research direction
Start with the TypeScript function overload documentation linked in the issue, then trace the compiler's type-system and function-signature handling. Done means overloads are available to type checking and compilation without emitting duplicate or multiple runtime functions.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- typescript
- Domain
- compilers
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100