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Type conversions #10

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augustt198 opened this issue Jan 20, 2015 · 0 comments

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augustt198 commented Jan 20, 2015

Type conversion needs to be further developed. It's currently limited to conversions between primitives in additive/multiplicative expressions.

Implicit conversions needed:

Boxing
Unboxing
Primitive widening
Reference widening

_{(Identity conversion has been omitted because it is obvious)}

Method selection also has to be improved. It currently only matches methods with the exact same name, arity, and type.

New algorithm for matching methods:

Match methods with the same name
Match methods with the same arity
Match methods applicable by subtyping
Match methods applicable by method invocation conversion
If multiple methods are still applicable, choose the most specific method (closest subtype)

augustt198 added the enhancement label

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