Ambiguous Overloads

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John B

Hi all,
If I have the following methods:

public void foo(object o)
{
}

public void foo(string s)
{
}

public void foo(array a)
{
}

And I call:
foo(null);

I should (and do) get an ambiguous call error.

But if I comment out the foo(string) or foo(array)

then I do not get the error and it just goes to the not foo(object) one
(ie foo(array)).

Why is this?

JB
 
John B said:
If I have the following methods:

public void foo(object o)
{
}

public void foo(string s)
{
}

public void foo(array a)
{
}

And I call:
foo(null);

I should (and do) get an ambiguous call error.

But if I comment out the foo(string) or foo(array)

then I do not get the error and it just goes to the not foo(object) one
(ie foo(array)).

Why is this?
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Because it picks the most specific one. Array and string aren't more or
less specific than each other, so there's ambiguity - but string is
unambiguously more specific than object (as is Array).
 
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