Re: Multiple-dispatch on functions

[Dan Sugalski]

At 10:03 PM 8/30/2001 -0400, Michael G Schwern wrote:
>Thinking about what Zhang was saying about multiple-dispatch not being
>inherently OO.  I think he's sort of right.  Multiple-dispatch need
>not be confined to method lookups.

There is the potential for a pretty significant cost to this, since we'd 
need to evaluate the args at runtime for each call. (Possibly we could do 
some compile time optimization, but not in a lot of places, alas)

I think it'd be cool, but it won't be free at runtime.

                                        Dan

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