[pypy-svn] r77928 - pypy/extradoc/talk/pepm2011

[arigo at codespeak.net]

Author: arigo
Date: Thu Oct 14 14:58:41 2010
New Revision: 77928

Modified:
   pypy/extradoc/talk/pepm2011/paper.tex
Log:
Add the word "modern" here, and a footnote.


Modified: pypy/extradoc/talk/pepm2011/paper.tex
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--- pypy/extradoc/talk/pepm2011/paper.tex	(original)
+++ pypy/extradoc/talk/pepm2011/paper.tex	Thu Oct 14 14:58:41 2010
@@ -157,8 +157,11 @@
 applicable to the objects at hand when doing a generic operation on them. An
 example would be the addition of two objects: The addition needs to check what
 the concrete objects that should be added are, and choose the implementation
-that is fitting for them. Type dispatching is a very common operation in a
-dynamic language because no types are known at compile time, so all operations
+that is fitting for them. Type dispatching is a very common operation in
+modern\footnote{For languages in the LISP family, basic arithmetic operations
+are typically not overloaded; even in Smalltalk, type dispatching is much
+simpler than in Python or JavaScript.}
+dynamic languages because no types are known at compile time, so all operations
 need it.
 
 A recently popular approach to implementing just-in-time compilers for dynamic