Message9350

Delaying indefinitely this idea. The problem is that in general this is an exponential search problem because each choice - int OR boolean - should be optimized at the callsite for the specific invocation.

But there's a much simpler - and standard Jython - workaround for now. Using the example in the attached test.java:

from java.lang import Integer
import test; test.lol (Integer(0), False)

will call the desired overloaded method. This is because there's no longer a choice of attempting to coerce in __tojava__ to a Java boolean or an int.

I don't see us re-exploring this sort of idea before type hinting and Jython 3.x