Catalin Marinas wrote: > Hi, > > Sorry if this was previously discussed but it's something I miss in > Python. I get around this using isinstance() but it would be cleaner > to have separate functions with the same name but different argument > types. I think the idea gets quite close to the Lisp/CLOS > implementation of methods.
Guido himself addressed multimethods in his Artima blog: http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=101605 See also the subsequent discussion about subtyping problems. Kay -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list