PEP 318 (wrappers), multimethods, strict typechecking (was Re: OT(Slightly): Thanks to Python.

[Ville Vainio]

    Ville> Or in Python 2.4 (strict_type is hypothetical for now):

    Ville> def foo(a,b) [typecheck(type1, type2):
    Ville> pass

    Ville> def foo(a,b) [typecheck(type3, type4):
    Ville> pass

    Ville> which is even nicer :-).

Damn, my brain never works properly on sat/sun morning. Obviously I
meant that there could be wrappers for:

asserttype: check all args w/ isinstance

multimethod: dynamically choose the func/method to execute. Slow, but
sometimes people need it.

And if someone wonders what I'm going on about, check out:

http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0318.html

This might also be a good time to dream up all kinds of cool wrappers
we can think about :)

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