Metaclass with name overloading.

[Alex Martelli]

Ville Vainio <ville at spammers.com> wrote:
   ...
> >>>>> "Alex" == Alex Martelli <aleaxit at yahoo.com> writes:
> 
>     Alex> For overload purposes, you might have the decorator actually
>     Alex> take as arguments some _types_ and record them so that the
>     Alex> metaclass can arrange for the dispatching based on
>     Alex> actual-argument types...
> 
> I believe several implementations of generic functions/multimethods in
> Python exist already; Quick googling brings up 
> 
> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2004-April/043902.html

They exist, but you can't just 'def thesamename(....):' more than once
within a class, which is what the OP asked for.  Building on Heller's
hint I showed how to allow that with a decorator, that's all.


Alex