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Implement new Concept Exercise: method-overloading #846

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@ErikSchierboom

This issue describes how to implement the method-overloading concept exercise for the F# track.

Getting started

Please please please read the docs before starting. Posting PRs without reading these docs will be a lot more frustrating for you during the review cycle, and exhaust Exercism's maintainers' time. So, before diving into the implementation, please read up on the following documents:

Please also watch the following video:

Goal

The goal of this exercise is to teach the student the basics of the Concept of Method Overloading in F#.

Learning objectives

  • Know what method overloading is.
  • Know how to define overloaded methods.
  • Know the limitations of method overloading.
  • Know how to define optional parameters.
  • Know how to pass named arguments.

Out of scope

  • Overload resolution.

Concepts

This Concepts Exercise's Concepts are:

  • method-overloading: know what method overloading is; know how to define overloaded methods; know the limitations of method overloading.
  • optional-parameters: know how to define optional parameters.
  • named-arguments: know how to use named arguments.

Prerequisites

This Concept Exercise's prerequisites Concepts are:

  • classes: know how to define methods on classes.

Any data types used in this exercise (e.g. strings) should also be added as prerequisites.

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Representer

This exercise does not require any specific representation logic to be added to the representer.

Analyzer

This exercise does not require any specific logic to be added to the analyzer.

Implementing

To implement this exercise, please follow these instructions.

Help

If you have any questions while implementing the exercise, please post the questions as comments in this issue.

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