OT(Slightly): Thanks to Python.

[Bob Ippolito]

On 2004-03-04 14:40:55 -0500, Michael Hudson <mwh at python.net> said:

> "John Roth" <newsgroups at jhrothjr.com> writes:
> 
>> As far as I am concerned, 2 and 3 are so whats.  1 would be nice at
>> times, but there's no way it's going to happen in a language that
>> doesn't have static typing.
> 
> Well, it's called multiple dispatch.  Could be done, but it's quite a
> paradigm shift.

I've seen quite a few implementations of multiple dispatch in Python, 
based on types, tests, or adaptations/interfaces... but obviously none 
of them can be represented in the function signature [yet, ...]

-bob