# \#overloading

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## [Manual control of overloading existing methods](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/manual-control-of-overloading-existing-methods/133836)

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**Author:** [@frankwswang](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/frankwswang)\
**Replies:** 19\
**Last updated:** [August 15, 2026, 5:19pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/manual-control-of-overloading-existing-methods/133836 "2026-08-15T17:19:25Z")

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I am curious to know how much people want to have a feature/mechanism in Julia to manually control function overloading. Specifically, to disallow overloading already defined methods when intended. One direct motivation…

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## [Overloading \`^\`](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/overloading/119723)

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**Author:** [@sadish-d](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/sadish-d)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [September 23, 2024, 2:49am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/overloading/119723 "2024-09-23T02:49:33Z")

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struct S x end Base.:(^)(s::S, p) = S(s.x ^ p) S(1) ^ -2.0 S(1) ^ -2 # ERROR: MethodError: no method matching inv(::S) It looks like you can not completely define ^ for a type, without defining a multiplicative inverse i…