[Python-3000] Generic function PEP won't make it in time

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Fri Apr 27 09:25:50 CEST 2007


Talin wrote:

> I kind of wonder about the idea of implementing generic functions using 
> generic functions.

I'd be worried about efficiency. Generic functions on
top of generic functions sounds like you would have two
layers of dynamic lookup to go through instead of one.

--
Greg


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