> > What are your plans for multiple dispatch as a project? > In terms of development I consider it mostly complete now. Plans for the future are mostly performance tweaks and support for Python3 type annotations (Jeremiah Lowin has done some good work on this)
> Why can't this just be included in SymPy? > It could be but it would be a fork and so might cause fragmentation > Do any other projects use multipledispatch, to your knowledge? > I've used it in LogPy, my personal logic programming system. It's a complex enough project to generate issues. SymPy would be the first major project with actual users though. > How stable is the API? Will we need to worry about compatibility breaks no > version mismatches? > I think that the API is pretty solid now but the project has really only had input from one developer. I encourage others to take a look at the design docs and make suggestions sooner rather than later http://multiple-dispatch.readthedocs.org/en/latest/design.html Ondrej raised the API stability question on the issue. I'll include my answer to that below Yup, that's a valid concern. On the flip side once multipledispatch has users it's much harder for me to experiment and change things. However, in this particular case there are a couple of things we can do. 1. Multipledispatch supports a few interfaces, one of which is the interface used by singledispatch in Python 3.4 functools. It's safe to say that this interface is pretty stable 2. Because I happen to develop both projects I can probably manage any changes simultaneously in the two codebases for the first few months Finally, multipledispatch has a very small scope. I consider it to be fairly complete now. I mostly expect only performance tweaks and some Python 3 sugar in the future. <https://github.com/certik> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sympy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sympy@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sympy. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/CAJ8oX-E%2Bai_gLrnC9AMOor44%3Dp11SGiamcrzniaQV0M_oeCSPQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
