At 7:30 AM +0000 1/24/03, Piers Cawley wrote:
In my quest to eliminate as many explicit conditionals from my code as
possible, I found myself wondering if Perl 6's multidispatch mechanism
would allow one to write:
Okay, I think I remembered the problem. Assume the following:
list bar(int); # bar takes an int, returns a list
scalar bar(int); # bar takes an int, returns a scalar
and also assume the following:
xyzzy(scalar); # xyzzy takes a scalar
xyzzy(list); # xyzzy takes a list
and then we make the call:
xyzzy(bar(1));
Which bar do we call? And which xyzzy?
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