[ANN] Multimethod.py -- multimethods for Python
Aahz Maruch
aahz at netcom.com
Tue Jan 11 11:56:20 EST 2000
In article <20000111113656.A42270 at vislab.epa.gov>,
Randall Hopper <aa8vb at yahoo.com> wrote:
>Doug Hellmann:
> |
> |Could one of you post a brief description of what a multimethod is, or
> |maybe just a pointer to a definition somewhere?
>
>I had the same question yesterday and did a little surfing. Basically,
>instead of switching off just the type of 'self' to determine which method
>to call, you switch off the type of other arguments as well.
IOW, similar to C++-style multiple dispatch?
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