Function overloading by return type?

Question

Why don\'t more mainstream statically typed languages support function/method overloading by return type? I can\'t think of any that do. It seems no less useful or reasona

Answer 1

In such a language, how would you resolve the following:

f(g(x))

if f had overloads void f(int) and void f(string) and g had overloads int g(int) and string g(int)? You would need some kind of disambiguator.

I think the situations where you might need this would be better served by choosing a new name for the function.