[Python-Dev] Re: "groupby" iterator

[Greg Ewing]

"Phillip J. Eby" <pje at telecommunity.com>:

> Ironically, it would be easy to do this with generic functions, since one 
> would simply define a methods for the case 'math.sin(Voodoo)' that returns 
> lambda x: math.sin(x).

> (Hm.  This gives me an entirely unrelated idea about how to unify object 
> methods and generic functions in Python using "curried 
> generics".  Interesting.  And the Voodoo() aka 'arg()' concept could be 
> applied to predicate dispatching as well.)

If we go much further along this road, we're going to end
up re-implementing the whole Python interpreter using
threaded code!

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