At 06:48 AM 11/9/2001 +0000, Piers Cawley wrote: >Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > At 04:21 PM 11/8/2001 -0800, John Rudd wrote: > >>So, does this mean my other heart's desire of operator overloading might > >>be coming forth? (I know, I know, here I am, a smalltalker, asking for > >>operator overloading ... but, what are the smalltalkers gonna do, take > >>away my membership card?) > > > > What, you mean being able to override the + function for a variable, > > complete with method dispatch depending on the types of the variables > > on both sides of the +? > > > > Yup.... ;) > >Um, you do realise you don't need multi dispatch to do operator >overloading don't you?
Of course. You don't *need* it, but it does make things nicer. >Every so often I find myself thinking 'I should implement something >that automagically turns all numbers and strings into objects', but >there's always something more important to do. The multimethod dispatch'll take care of that, I think. Dan --------------------------------------"it's like this"------------------- Dan Sugalski even samurai [EMAIL PROTECTED] have teddy bears and even teddy bears get drunk