Dec. 17, 2007
7:27 a.m.
Neil Toronto writes:
Python's __op__/__rop__ is a rather clever solution to the problem in binary form. Do you know if there's a generalization of this? CLOS is almost it, but Python lets the class containing __op__ or __rop__ own the operation after it finds one that implements it.
Sorry, no. I'm a professional economist (my early work was related to Gibbard-Satterthwaite, thus my interest here) and wannabe developer, who happens to have enjoyed the occasional guidance of Ken Arrow a couple decades ago. If you think there's something to the application of multiobjective optimization to this problem, I'd love to take a hack at it ... no classes to teach winter term, I've got some time to bone up on the multidispatch problem itself.