[Python-ideas] singledispatch for methods

Michael Selik mike at selik.org
Tue Mar 26 23:35:11 EDT 2019


On Tue, Mar 26, 2019, 1:09 PM Tim Mitchell <tim.mitchell.chch at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Is it time to add singledispatch for methods to the core library?
>

What's the motivation for it, beyond the fact that it's possible?

Regarding jargon, aren't Python's instance methods are already
single-dispatch, because they receive the instance as the first argument?
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