为什么主流的静态类型语言不支持按返回类型重载函数/方法?我想不出有什么能做到。这似乎并不比支持按参数类型重载更有用或更合理。为什么它不那么受欢迎呢?


当前回答

大多数静态语言现在也支持泛型,这将解决您的问题。如前所述,如果没有参数差异,就无法知道调用哪一个。如果你想这样做,使用泛型就可以了。

其他回答

在. net中,有时我们使用一个参数来指示一个通用结果的期望输出,然后进行转换以得到我们期望的结果。

C#

public enum FooReturnType{
        IntType,
        StringType,
        WeaType
    }

    class Wea { 
        public override string ToString()
        {
            return "Wea class";
        }
    }

    public static object Foo(FooReturnType type){
        object result = null;
        if (type == FooReturnType.IntType) 
        {
            /*Int related actions*/
            result = 1;
        }
        else if (type == FooReturnType.StringType)
        {
            /*String related actions*/
            result = "Some important text";
        }
        else if (type == FooReturnType.WeaType)
        {
            /*Wea related actions*/
            result = new Wea();
        }
        return result;
    }

    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        Console.WriteLine("Expecting Int from Foo: " + Foo(FooReturnType.IntType));
        Console.WriteLine("Expecting String from Foo: " + Foo(FooReturnType.StringType));
        Console.WriteLine("Expecting Wea from Foo: " + Foo(FooReturnType.WeaType));
        Console.Read();
    }

也许这个例子也有帮助:

C++

    #include <iostream>

enum class FooReturnType{ //Only C++11
    IntType,
    StringType,
    WeaType
}_FooReturnType;

class Wea{
public:
    const char* ToString(){
        return "Wea class";
    }
};

void* Foo(FooReturnType type){
    void* result = 0;
    if (type == FooReturnType::IntType) //Only C++11
    {
        /*Int related actions*/
        result = (void*)1;
    }
    else if (type == FooReturnType::StringType) //Only C++11
    {
        /*String related actions*/
        result = (void*)"Some important text";
    }
    else if (type == FooReturnType::WeaType) //Only C++11
    {
        /*Wea related actions*/
        result = (void*)new Wea();
    }
    return result;
}

int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
    int intReturn = (int)Foo(FooReturnType::IntType);
    const char* stringReturn = (const char*)Foo(FooReturnType::StringType);
    Wea *someWea = static_cast<Wea*>(Foo(FooReturnType::WeaType));
    std::cout << "Expecting Int from Foo: " << intReturn << std::endl;
    std::cout << "Expecting String from Foo: " << stringReturn << std::endl;
    std::cout << "Expecting Wea from Foo: " << someWea->ToString() << std::endl;
    delete someWea; // Don't leak oil!
    return 0;
}

如果你想重载具有不同返回类型的方法,只需添加一个具有默认值的虚拟参数来允许重载执行,但不要忘记参数类型应该是不同的,因此重载逻辑工作接下来是delphi上的示例:

type    
    myclass = class
    public
      function Funct1(dummy: string = EmptyStr): String; overload;
      function Funct1(dummy: Integer = -1): Integer; overload;
    end;

像这样使用它

procedure tester;
var yourobject : myclass;
  iValue: integer;
  sValue: string;
begin
  yourobject:= myclass.create;
  iValue:= yourobject.Funct1(); //this will call the func with integer result
  sValue:= yourobject.Funct1(); //this will call the func with string result
end;

根据返回元素是标量还是数组,Octave允许不同的结果。

x = min ([1, 3, 0, 2, 0])
   ⇒  x = 0

[x, ix] = min ([1, 3, 0, 2, 0])
   ⇒  x = 0
      ix = 3 (item index)

Cf也是奇异值分解。

这一点在c++中略有不同;我不知道它是否会被认为直接通过返回类型重载。它更像是一种模板专门化,以。

util.h

#ifndef UTIL_H
#define UTIL_H

#include <string>
#include <sstream>
#include <algorithm>

class util {
public: 
    static int      convertToInt( const std::string& str );
    static unsigned convertToUnsigned( const std::string& str );
    static float    convertToFloat( const std::string& str );
    static double   convertToDouble( const std::string& str );

private:
    util();
    util( const util& c );
    util& operator=( const util& c );

    template<typename T>
    static bool stringToValue( const std::string& str, T* pVal, unsigned numValues );

    template<typename T>
    static T getValue( const std::string& str, std::size_t& remainder );
};

#include "util.inl"

#endif UTIL_H

util.inl

template<typename T>
static bool util::stringToValue( const std::string& str, T* pValue, unsigned numValues ) {
    int numCommas = std::count(str.begin(), str.end(), ',');
    if (numCommas != numValues - 1) {
        return false;
    }

    std::size_t remainder;
    pValue[0] = getValue<T>(str, remainder);

    if (numValues == 1) {
        if (str.size() != remainder) {
            return false;
        }
    }
    else {
        std::size_t offset = remainder;
        if (str.at(offset) != ',') {
            return false;
        }

        unsigned lastIdx = numValues - 1;
        for (unsigned u = 1; u < numValues; ++u) {
            pValue[u] = getValue<T>(str.substr(++offset), remainder);
            offset += remainder;
            if ((u < lastIdx && str.at(offset) != ',') ||
                (u == lastIdx && offset != str.size()))
            {
                return false;
            }
        }
    }
    return true;    
}

util.cpp

#include "util.h"

template<>
int util::getValue( const std::string& str, std::size_t& remainder ) {
    return std::stoi( str, &remainder );
} 

template<>
unsigned util::getValue( const std::string& str, std::size_t& remainder ) {
    return std::stoul( str, &remainder );
}

template<>
float util::getValue( const std::string& str, std::size_t& remainder ) {
    return std::stof( str, &remainder );
}     

template<>   
double util::getValue( const std::string& str, std::size_t& remainder ) {
    return std::stod( str, &remainder );
}

int util::convertToInt( const std::string& str ) {
    int i = 0;
    if ( !stringToValue( str, &i, 1 ) ) {
        std::ostringstream strStream;
        strStream << __FUNCTION__ << " Bad conversion of [" << str << "] to int";
        throw strStream.str();
    }
    return i;
}

unsigned util::convertToUnsigned( const std::string& str ) {
    unsigned u = 0;
    if ( !stringToValue( str, &u, 1 ) ) {
        std::ostringstream strStream;
        strStream << __FUNCTION__ << " Bad conversion of [" << str << "] to unsigned";
        throw strStream.str();
    }
    return u;
}     

float util::convertToFloat(const std::string& str) {
    float f = 0;
    if (!stringToValue(str, &f, 1)) {
        std::ostringstream strStream;
        strStream << __FUNCTION__ << " Bad conversion of [" << str << "] to float";
        throw strStream.str();
    }
    return f;
}

double util::convertToDouble(const std::string& str) {
    float d = 0;
    if (!stringToValue(str, &d, 1)) {
        std::ostringstream strStream;
        strStream << __FUNCTION__ << " Bad conversion of [" << str << "] to double";
        throw strStream.str();
    }
    return d;
}

这个例子并没有精确地使用根据返回类型的函数重载解析,但是这个c++非对象类使用模板专门化来通过私有静态方法模拟根据返回类型的函数重载解析。

每个convertToType函数都调用函数模板stringToValue(),如果你看一下这个函数模板的实现细节或算法,它调用getValue<T>(param, param),它返回一个类型T并将其存储到T*中,T*作为其参数之一传递到stringToValue()函数模板。

除了这样的东西;c++并没有通过返回类型来实现函数重载解析的机制。可能还有我不知道的其他构造或机制可以通过返回类型模拟解析。

从另一个非常相似的问题(dupe?)中窃取一个c++特定的答案:


函数返回类型不会在重载解析中发挥作用,因为Stroustrup(我假设来自其他c++架构师的输入)希望重载解析是“上下文独立的”。参见“c++编程语言,第三版”中的“重载和返回类型”。

原因是为了保持独立于上下文的单个操作符或函数调用的解析。

They wanted it to be based only on how the overload was called - not how the result was used (if it was used at all). Indeed, many functions are called without using the result or the result would be used as part of a larger expression. One factor that I'm sure came into play when they decided this was that if the return type was part of the resolution there would be many calls to overloaded functions that would need to be resolved with complex rules or would have to have the compiler throw an error that the call was ambiguous.

而且,上帝知道,c++的重载解析已经足够复杂了……