[Python-Dev] type categories

Neil Schemenauer nas@python.ca
Wed, 14 Aug 2002 08:54:40 -0700


David Abrahams wrote:
> There's not all that much to what I'm doing. I have a really simple-minded
> dispatching scheme which checks each overload in sequence, and takes the
> first one which can get a match for all arguments.

Can you explain in more detail how the matching is done?  Wouldn't
having some kind of type declarations be a precondition to implementing
multiple dispatch.

  Neil