Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Wed, 22 Jun 2005 12:34:21 -0500, Rocco Moretti wrote: > > >>You could also turn __init__ into a dispatch fuction: >> >>#-- >>class myPointClass: >> def __init__(self, *args): >> if len(args) <= 2: >> self.__init_two(*args) >> if len(args) == 3: >> self.__init_three(*args) > > > Oh wow, so that's what I've been doing for years. Dispatching. > > And I thought I was just calling other functions :-)
I think the distinction between just calling other functions and dispatching is that with dispatching, the function doesn't do any actual work by itself, but just hands off the work to a different function. http://www.c2.com/cgi/wiki?DispatchingForDummies > That's the joys of a mostly self-taught programming knowledge: you miss > out on all the buzzwords. Being mostly self taught myself, I have a tendancy to use infrequently encountered terms in related but technically inappropriate contexts, confusing the better informed people I deal with. ;-) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
