Kevin Downey <redc...@gmail.com> writes:

> if I recall, the current defonce like behavior of multimethods was a
> response to the situation where if you have your multimethods split
> across multiple files reloading the file with the defmulti in it would
> re-def the multimethod with the new dispatch, but it would not have
> any of the methods loaded from the other files.
>
> oscillating between these poles at about 6.31139e7hz seems less than ideal.
>
> maybe defmethod could try and capture the ns a method is defined in,
> and defmulti would try to force a reload? seems overly complicated for
> core.

I assume there's already a really good reason re-evaling defmulti
doesn't just change the dispatch function without blowing away the
method table? Though I can't think of one myself.

-Phil

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