I certainly agree with the addition of "yet". I am finding multimethods to be more and more useful every day. I am now covering keyword inheritance during *intro* talks on Clojure.
Stuart > I've just read in the Stuart's book that multimethod dispatching on > something other than Java inheritance is rarely used. It seems to me > that there is a huge potential for their use in something that I do, > so I'd add "yet" to his words. Anyway, what I would ask someone from > the core team, or someone else that knows the internals is: > How fast the multimethods dispatch performs with large taxonomies > compared to Java inheritance or small taxonomies? For example, a 1000 > or thousands elements in different taxonomies (or even a million?). Is > it designed to perform well in such cases? > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
