Multimethods

[Paul Prescod]

Neel Krishnaswami wrote:
> 
> I don't understand you here.
> 
> The way I understand method dispatch in Python to work is as follows.
> If a name lookup that searches a class finds a function, that function
> is wrapped in method clothing and returned. Assigning a function to an
> instance slot will simply put a function in the slot.

Right. My point is that when Python sees the syntax

foo.bar()

It looks at __dict__ and then __bases__.__dict__ . You seem to want it
to look somewhere else but a) where and b) with what efficiency?

And which takes precedence?

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