Pavel Stehule wrote: > Hi > > I played with introduction of new pair of Polymorphic Parameters - like > anyXelement and anyXarray. Now, I don't think so enhancing PP is good way > now. Without significant redesign there are not practical append more code > there. > > Why this is a issue? The extension's authors are not able to specify result > type without enumeration of all possible function signatures. Similar > situation is in argument processing - there are workaround based on "any" > type.
yes - it is same issue. There are possible two ways
1. with polymorphic types
2. with some aux functions that dynamically generate current function's signature - used in core (coalesce, greather, ...)
@1 is difficult when you can implement different strategies about work with arguments
a) depends on first
b) depends on common type
c) depends on second
So I am thinking so the best possibility is allow same functionality that we use in core to extension authors.
Regards
Pavel
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