[C++-sig] Dissimilar Overloads

[David Abrahams]

"Scott A. Smith" <ssmith at magnet.fsu.edu> writes:

> Hi,
>
> If one has overloaded functions with dis-similar arguments,
> do they need to be wrapped separately? While I have been able
> to successfully use BOOST_PYTHON_FUNCTION_OVERLOADS and
> BOOST_PYTHON_MEMBER_FUNCTION_OVERLOADS when my functions have
> argument lists that are similar and/or use default values, I cannot
> figure out how to do something equally simple to get functions with
> different types of arguments exported. For example, is there something
> like the code below that can work?
>
> #include <boost/python/def.hpp>
> using namespace boost::python;
>
> int f(int x, int y, int z);
> void f(double d, complex z);
>
> BOOST_PYTHON_MODULE(xxx)
> {
>    def("f", f, args("x", "y", "z"));
>    def("f", f, args("d", "y"));

     int (&f1)(int,int,int) = f;
     def("f", f1, args("x", "y", "z"));

     void (&f2)(double,complex) = f;
     def("f", f2, args("d", "y"));

is the easiest way. There are other hacks in this particular case, but
I'd avoid them.

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