[Python-Dev] A thought on generic functions

Paul Moore wrote:

I'd rather see a solution which addressed the wider visitor use case (I think I just sprained my back bending over backwards to avoid mentioning generic functions :-))

Speaking of generic functions, while thinking about the recent discussion on proxy objects, it occurred to me that this is something you can do with an OO system that you can't do so easily with a generic function system. If the operations being proxied were generic functions rather than methods, you'd have to override them all individually instead of having a central point to catch them all. -- Greg