Re: CLOS multiple dispatch

[Damian Conway]

Dan observed:

   > I hadn't considered having it as a global thing, just because I can see
   > class Foo wanting multimethods, and class Bar being fine with 'normal'
   > class hierarchy walking, and class Baz deciding it wants the automatic
   > redispatch form of method calling.
   > 
   > We could make it a global thing and have only a single way to dispatch, in
   > which case it would be lexically overridable, but that seems awfully
   > limiting...

I fully agree that per-class and per-object dispatch control is desirable.
But I was also proposing that the *default* dispatch mechanism be
user-selectable. Hence a global hook.

Damian