At 7:48 PM -0400 9/3/02, Miko O'Sullivan wrote:
>From: "Dan Sugalski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> How about a JPEG object? Might take a string with the image data, an
>> array with byte data, a filehandle that's got the data to it.
>
>But those situations are all covered by the #= concept:
We call that concept "multimethod dispatch". That's what you're asking for.
> > If you want automatic initializers
>
>But again, I don't see that the idea requires automatic initializers.
Look closer. It is *not* compiler shorthand--you can't fully know the
types of the potential initializers at compile time.
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