multi-dispatch (was Re: large class hierarchies in python)

[Justin Dubs]

"Alex Martelli" <aleax at aleax.it> wrote in message
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> A brief tirade in favour of multi-dispatching...:
>
> It's runtime-polymorphism over an unlimited number of objects, rather
> than over one object at a time.  In any language that doesn't offer
...
> And the Dylan implementation looks fine to me in as far
> as I've dug into it.  What do you find wrong with it...?

Ahhhhhh..... Thank you.  I didn't spend enough time letting the concepts
sink in.  Thanks for the great explanation.  It makes sense now.  That is
very useful.  I still hate the dylan syntax, but the multi-dispatching makes
sense now.  Thank you for the help.

Justin Dubs