any one having any experience with this, overloading on return type
with different parameters should be a bad practice, is it.
I'm taking that to mean - "is it bad practice to use differing parameter combinations to facilitate different return types" - if that is indeed the question, then just imagine someone else coming across this code in a few months time - effectively "dummy" parameters to determine return type...it would be quite hard to understand what's going on.
Edit - as ChrisLava points out "the way around this is to have better names for each function (instead of overloading). Names that have clear meaning within the application. There is no reason why Bar should return an int and a string. I could see just calling ToString() on the int"
