[Python-Dev] type categories
Greg Ewing
greg@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Thu, 15 Aug 2002 11:51:43 +1200 (NZST)
Andrew Koenig <ark@research.att.com>:
> In the Python domain, I imagine something like this:
>
> def f(arg: Category1):
> ....
> or f(arg: Category2):
> ....
> or f(arg: Category3):
>
> I would like the implementation to try each version of f until it
> finds one that passes the constraints
Would all the versions of f have to be written together
like that? I think when most people talk of multiple
dispatch they have something more flexible in mind.
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