On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 01:10:58PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> At 10:03 PM 8/30/2001 -0400, Michael G Schwern wrote:
> >Thinking about what Zhang was saying about multiple-dispatch not being
> >inherently OO. I think he's sort of right. Multiple-dispatch need
> >not be confined to method lookups.
>
> There is the potential for a pretty significant cost to this, since we'd
> need to evaluate the args at runtime for each call. (Possibly we could do
> some compile time optimization, but not in a lot of places, alas)
Hmmmm.... shouldn't be any worse than a multi-method call. And it'll
only effect those functions with the 'multi' flag.
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