fs.write() and tls.connect() overloading should be separate methods instead

[slikts]

fs.write() and tls.connect() have two different, incompatible signatures:

fs.write(fd, buffer, offset, length[, position], callback)
fs.write(fd, data[, position[, encoding]], callback)

This came up while making a library that wraps the Node API to promisify the callback methods; the masked inner signature is impossible to promisify in a generic way, and this problem also affects promisify-node. The inner method should just have its own name; using overloading for it is just unnecessary added complexity.

[bnoordhuis]

Sorry, but that's not going to happen because of backwards compatibility. You'll have to work around it in your project.