JADE Environment Development Ideas

I thought I have seen this idea presented before but couldn't find it. Sorry, if this is a duplicate.

When we create a method that relies on different types in Jade we still are forced to use either:

1. procedural/switch statement code that is usually long winded (ergo hard to read); if we want to add a parameter type we are left with testing all of the references adding expense to what should be a simple change

2. or, we create a method with a new name which also seems procedural as we expect the caller to know which method to call

Yesterday it was chosen not to change a method because there were hundreds of methods references, whereas it should be a new method. Option 2 wasn't taken because it would be too confusing. The option taken was to keep the code inline.

Without method overloading Jade's customers have to create long winded methods, and to maintain a type, decide whether the testing expense is worth it or not.

Can we please have method overloading.