[Edu-sig] Lined up for EuroPython

[Arthur]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: edu-sig-bounces at python.org [mailto:edu-sig-bounces at python.org] On
> Behalf Of Lee Harr
> Sent: Saturday, June 25, 2005 3:08 PM
> To: edu-sig at python.org
> Subject: Re: [Edu-sig] Lined up for EuroPython
> 
> >"method_get" is a package level funtion which does compares the __sigs
> list
> >to the args for all factory functions and gives back the information
> >necessary to call the correct class with the correct arguments in the
> >correct order.
> 
> 
> Reminds me of this article about "multiple dispatch" :
> http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-pydisp.html
> 

See the relationship - but the article is a little too technical for me to
understand what is the same and what is different about what I'm doing and
"multiple dispatch". Usually "too technical for me" means mostly a lack of a
grasp of the vocabulary, and I am a bit stubborn in not working to get up to
speed on programming vocabulary.

I never understood what a "factory function" was until I invented one ;) -
and only then realized it had been invented a million times before.

Starting by wishing that Python had the kind of method overloading that Java
features, I ended up with a solution that more concisely, more specifically,
and more completely solves the problem I was trying to solve than I ever
would have come to had Python in fact *had* method overloading.

Though method overloading would have been *easier* ;)

Art