Voting for PEP 308 (was Re: For review: PEP 308 - If-then-else expression)

[Stephen Horne]

On Wed, 05 Mar 2003 13:08:14 GMT, Alex Martelli <aleax at aleax.it>
wrote:

>Stephen Horne wrote:
>   ...
>> I've thought about it this approach quite a bit, and (once a range of
>> knock-on effects are considered) the overall approach seems almost
>> like a new paradigm - perhaps 'system oriented' rather than 'object
>> oriented'.
>
>I suggest you study Dylan, which has multiple dispatch and a slightly
>different approach that is, however, reminescent in some respects of
>what I think you're discussing -- you will probably find it rather
>interesting.  I think Dylan's lack of success is due to other factors
>(Apple's ups and downs with it -- the presence of an extremely powerful
>macro system -- etc, etc) and I'd hope the lessons it suggests are not
>entirely forgotten.  Multiple dispatch, in particular, is an idea well
>worth preserving, IMHO.

Thanks for the suggestion - I've heard of Dylan but know nothing about
it.

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