[Python-3000] Kill "generic functions"!

[Antoine Pitrou]

Le jeudi 06 avril 2006 à 17:10 -0700, Guido van Rossum a écrit :
> 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!

Hmm, perhaps... ;) Let me explain my confusion then:

1. "Overloading" and "overriding" look very much the same for most
people. In French the same word "surcharge" is used for both.

2. Python does have "operrator overloading".