Multiple Dispatch
Discussions focus on the concept of multiple dispatch in programming languages, its differences from single dispatch and function overloading, and examples in languages like Julia, CLOS, Dylan, and C++ workarounds.
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I thought Julia's multiple dispatch was run-time polymorphism?
What would multi-dispatch do differently???
Possibly http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_dispatch ?
Can someone more intelligent than me explain how multiple dispatch differs from function overloading?
Sounds like a brilliant case for multiple-dispatch.
It seems to me the author just wants multiple dispatch.
That sounds like single dispatch to me. Maybe I'm missing something.
What do you mean by "multiple dispatch"? What's an example of a multiple dispatch program?
How is multiple dispatch different from function overloading, as found in C++/Pascal? Is it the same thing?
It's a shortcoming of languages that don't have multiple dispatch.