Re: Multiple dispatch / multimethods??

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• Subject: Re: Multiple dispatch / multimethods??
• From: "Gary Stephenson" <garys@ihug.com.au>
• Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2001 20:15:01 -0400 (EDT)
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> Each actual "generic function" would then be
> a descendant of the "GenericFunctionClass", containing nothing but a bunch
> of overloaded constructor methods.

Obviously this isn't the right idea at all - constructors being incapable of
returning anything but the newly created GenericFunction object.  Suppose
instead that each GenericFunction heir class consisted of a bunch of
overloaded static methods named "do" or somesuch - it doesn't matter. I'm
just trying to understand the salient differences between
multimethods/generic functions a la Dylan and overloaded methods a la Java.

cheers,

gary

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