[Lazarus] Overloading with generic type as parmeter causes compiler error.

[Donald R. Ziesig]

  Hi All!

I am working on a generic type library and ran into a problem at compile 
time.

type
   generic TMyType<T> = class
*
*
*
   function IndexOf( Item : T ) : Integer; overload;
   functionIndexOf( aName : String) : Integer; overload;

// generics1.pas Error: Function is already declared Public\Forward 
"TMyType.IndexOf(AnsiString):LongInt;"

// or, reverse the declarations:

     function     IndexOf( aName : String ) : Integer;  overload;
     function     IndexOf( Item : T ) : Integer; overload;

// generics1.pas Error: Function is already declared Public\Forward 
"TMyType.IndexOf(<undefined type>):LongInt;"

end;

Similar errors occur in implementation of the overloaded subprograms, as in:

// generics1.pas Error: function header "IndexOf" doesn't match forward 
: var name changes aName => Item


The obvious work-around is to avoid overloading with generic types as 
parameters, but that is really a hack in this case.

Keep up the GREAT work,

Don Z.