On Sep 6, 8:02 am, "Marco Bizzarri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 9:16 PM, Bruno Desthuilliers > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Marco Bizzarri a écrit : > > >> Just a question: "generic functions" are not meant in the sense of > >> "generic functions" of CLOS, am I right? > > > Nope. Just "generic" in the sense that they accept any object implementing a > > very minimal interface. > > > If you want something like CLOS multimethods, you may be interested in > > Philip Eby's ruledispatch. > > Even though I loved them when I used at university, I'm not looking > for them right now... but nice to know that they are available under > python :-)
Actually they are already available in the standard library but they are undocumented. See for instance this recent blog post of mine: http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=237764 (as well as the comment below by P.J. Eby) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
