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From: Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid>
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Subject: Re: method parameter binding
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2015 17:09:48 -0500
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On 12/10/2015 4:34 PM, Jan Burse wrote:
> Hi,
>
> BTW: Situation changes totally when the argument types
> are primitive types, since then the specificity rules are
> different and widening applies, I guess.
> [...]

     Unless I've missed something, nobody has yet been able to reproduce
the problem you originally reported:

     - Eric Douglas tried it got the unsurprising result, but his use
       of `static' may have confused things (I think it's a red herring,
       but even so ...),

     - Jan Burse tried it and got the unsurprising result,

     - I tried it and got the unsurprising result.

     Only your reported result was surprising -- and it would be well
to understand why that is so before you go looking for dark corners in
the specificity rules.

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