function overloading

[Jay O'Connor]

On Sat, 24 May 2003 23:28:25 +0000, laotseu
<bdesth at removethis.free.fr> wrote:


>> In C you can have
>> 
>> int myFunc (int a) {};
>> int myFunc (char* a) {};
>> 
>> and the compiler can tell by the types involved which function to
>> call.
>
>No you can't. Try to compile this and you'll get two errors :
>- conflicting types for 'myFunc'
>- previous declaration of 'myFunc'
>
>Your example would work in C++, but C and C++ are two different languages...
></HS>

Fair enough.  I knew the concept that I was shooting for but was a bit
rusty to provide a workable examle.

Take care,
Jay