Python from Wise Guy's Viewpoint

Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk qrczak at knm.org.pl
Sun Oct 19 14:38:13 EDT 2003


On Sun, 19 Oct 2003 20:01:03 +0200, Joachim Durchholz wrote:

> The longer answer: Multimethods have modularity issues (if whatever domain
> they're dispatching on can be extended by independent developers:
> different developers may extend the dispatch domain of a function in
> different directions, and leave undefined combinations;

This doesn't matter until you provide an equally powerful mechanism which
fixes that. Which is it?

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