I wanted to use overloading in Iron Python but seems it's not working :
import sys
import clr
def af(a, b):
c = a+b
print c
return c
def af(j):
y = j*j
print y
return y
af(6,7)
af(5)
I get a error =\
Is there any way to use overloading ?
my purpose is to write a function : foo(doAction,numTimes)
when by default if I use foo(action): it will do it once,
or I'll write : foo(action,6)
thanks a lot!!!
IronPython might run on the CLR but that doesn't make it C#. In any kind of Python, you can only define a function once. Defining a function is really just assigning to a name, so in your code you assign a function to af, then assign another one to the same name, so the first one is simply discarded.
The way to do this in Python is via default arguments:
def aj(a, b=None):
if b is not None:
result = a + b
else:
result = a * a
print result
return result
For your actual use case of course you can define numtimes with a default of 1:
def foo(action, numtimes=1):
# whatever
