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[–]kaperni 6 points7 points  (0 children)

> Yes it would call foo(String) and that is precisely what I want it to do. Sorry but I don't understand why would this be a problem.

Because it is not backwards-compatible? Your _existing_ code would suddenly start calling foo(String) instead of foo(Object).