Flash function overloading in Haxe

Question

I am having some trouble figuring out how to overload a function in Flash using Haxe. I know that Flash does not allow overloads but can accept function parameters without a type declared, but I am unsure as how to replicate this trick in Haxe.

EDIT: Since this does not appear to be possible, are there any known tricks that can be used to get around this limitation?

Answer 1

The Haxe website has an example of how to achieve this here: http://old.haxe.org/ref/optional_args

I don't think haxe supports true method overloading... not sure though. Good luck!

Answer 2

There was recently a discussion about this on the Haxe mailinglist: http://lists.motion-twin.com/pipermail/haxe/2010-May/035650.html

The most pertinent post is by Haxe's author: http://lists.motion-twin.com/pipermail/haxe/2010-May/035659.html

The tl;dr version is because Flash 9 doesn't support it they removed the ability to do it for all platforms.