[Python-3000] Kill "generic functions"!

Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Sat Apr 8 00:31:09 CEST 2006


"Michael Chermside" <mcherm at mcherm.com> wrote in message 
news:20060407045305.twzae7mu83y804s8 at login.werra.lunarpages.com...
> Greg Ewing writes:
>> "Multiple dispatch"
>
> +1
>
> How is the noun spelled? "Multiple Dispatch Function"? Too wordy perhaps? 
> I
> like it anyhow.

-1

To me, multiple dispatch mean dispatching on multiple arguments, whereas 
the
simple and most common of what we are talking about is, I believe,
sinple arg dispatch to multiple implementations.

tjr





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