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overloading. What may seem like an obvious overload now may
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turn out to be strange with future additions to cairo.
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It might seem logical to make
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an overload of <code class="function">cairo_set_source()</code>, but future plans to add
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<code class="function">cairo_set_source_rgb_premultiplied()</code>,
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which will also take three doubles make this a bad idea. For
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Note that there are cases where all constructors for a type
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aren't overloaded together. For example
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should <span class="emphasis"><em>not</em></span> be overloaded together with
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In such cases, the remaining constructors will typically need to
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be bound as static methods. In Java, for example, we might have:
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