[Python-3000] Kill "generic functions"!

[Guido van Rossum]

On 4/6/06, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
> But overloaded methods as they exist now have exactly the same
> expression as non-overloaded methods, all the machinery (mro walking
> etc.) being hidden from the programmer.

What type of overloading are you referring to? The way I think about
it, Python doesn't *have* overloading. Perhaps you're thinking of
overriding? Totally different beast!

> On the contrary, this new "overloaded function" mechanism requires the
> explicit use of a special decorator to specify that the function can be
> overloaded, and another special decorator to specify that we are
> currently overloading a function. Thus you would be referring to two
> different programming schemes with the same word. It's confusing IMO.

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