multimethod (or rather overloading) in Python

[anton muhin]

Nick Coghlan wrote:
> anton muhin wrote:
> 
>> anton muhin wrote:
>>
>> Correction:
>>
>>> Of course, I can imagine some metaclasses magic that would allow to 
>>> code:
>>>
>>> class MyClass(WithOverloading):
>>>   @overloadMethod(A)
>>>   def someMetod(self, _): ...
>>>
>>> But it would rather convoluted: the best idea I have so far is to 
>>> mangle  methods name in the manner most of C++ compilers do.
> 
> 
> PEAK has a fairly sophisticated implementation of method dispatch you 
> may want to look at.
> 
> http://peak.telecommunity.com/Articles/WhatisPEAK.html
> http://dirtsimple.org/2004/11/generic-functions-have-landed.html
> http://peak.telecommunity.com/doc/src/dispatch/__init__.html
> 
> I'm compelled to point out that PEAK should still be considered a 'work 
> in progress', but PJE's ideas should help you out :)
> 
> Cheers,
> Nick.
> 

Thank you very much, Nick!

anton.