I think I must not be understanding how overloads are resolved in class methods

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The compile error seems to be clearly saying that there is no overload that matches, despite the second overload clearly does. I must not be understanding something here.

I believe it’s relevant that I’m calling Item.new from inside the class (from a self.import class method). Before I refactored the code to move the import inside the class, it was able to resolve the overload.

 211 | hash[name] = Item.new(name, itype, slot, id)
                                          ^---
Error: expected argument 3 to 'Item.new' to be (Slot | Nil), not (String | Nil)

Overloads are:
 - Item.new(name : String, itype : ItemType, slot : Slot | Nil, id : String | Nil)
 - Item.new(name : String, itype : ItemType, slot : String | Nil, id : String | Nil)
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Can you share some example code that reproduces this?

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I tried to create a minimal example… but it successfully resolved the overload without error. Let me see what else I can do. It’s not large, or private, but it is multiple files.

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