863960 - pyidl does not prevent name collisions between an attribute and a method

Status: NEW

(Core :: XPCOM, defect)

Description

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

This does not error out with pyidl:

  interface nsIFoo : nsISupports {
    attribute long foo;
    void setFoo(long a, long b);
  };

even though in the C++ it will create two virtual SetFoo methods, which is badtimes due to http://support.microsoft.com/kb/131104

Comment 1

[(no longer active)]

I remember someone (khuey?) filing a bug about this a while ago...

Comment 2

[Kyle Huey (Exited; not receiving bugmail, old account, do not use)]

I don't think there was ever a bug for that.  It was something that came up when we discussed overloading methods in XPIDL.