Overloading funcs with vJass, possible?

[morganxl]

Is it possible to overload functions in jass?
This would be extremely useful for large maps, like mine...

Simple example:

// display text to all players
    function echo takes string s returns nothing
        call DisplayTextToForce(GetPlayersAll(), s)
    endfunction

// function with the same name, but uses only one player
    function echo takes player p, string s returns nothing
        call DisplayTextToPlayer(p,0,0,s)
    endfunction

If this isn't possible in vJass, can it be implemented with other tools, like cJass?

 

[Maker]

Nope, not possible in (v)JASS. Not sure about cJASS but I'd say it won't work with that either since afterall, it's converted to JASS in the end.

 

[Shadow Daemon]

cJass allows define overloading. Example:

define {
  msg(text)          = DisplayTextToForce (GetPlayersAll(), text)
  msg(text, p)       = DisplayTextToPlayer(Player(p), 0.0, 0.0, text)
  msg(text, p, x, y) = DisplayTextToPlayer(Player(p), x, y, text)
}

void test() {
  msg("test 1")
  msg("test 2", 1)
  msg("test 3", 2, 0.1, 0.1)
}

// ===>>>

function test takes nothing returns nothing
  call DisplayTextToForce (GetPlayersAll(), "test 1")
  call DisplayTextToPlayer(Player(1), 0.0, 0.0, "test 2")
  call DisplayTextToPlayer(Player(2), 0.1, 0.1, "test 3")
endfunction

But overloaded defines should take different number of arguments to be processed correctly.