On Sun, 26 Sep 2010 22:34:06 +1000 Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 10:25 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net> wrote:
Couple that with the extra function call overhead (since these wouldn't have real typeslots) and it still seems like a less than stellar idea.
As another use case for solid, efficient generic function support though... great idea :)
At the cost of even more execution overhead? :)
I did put that "efficient" in there for a reason! Now, I'm not saying anything about how *reasonable* that idea is, but I can dream ;)
Well, I can't see how it could be less than the overhead involved in a sqrt(x) -> x.__sqrt__() indirection anyway. When I read Mark's example, I wondered why he didn't simply write x**0.5 instead of sqrt(x), but it turns out it doesn't work on decimals. cheers Antoine.