> Any OOP with inheritance does multiple dispatch. Java, C++ vitual functions This is incorrect. C++ and Java are typical examples of languages that lack multi

> Any OOP with inheritance does multiple dispatch. Java, C++ vitual functions This is incorrect. C++ and Java are typical examples of languages that lack multiple dispatch, but are able to emulate it using the visitor pattern, as tsimionescu already mentioned. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_dispatch#Emulating_multiple_dispatch https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_dispatch#Emulating_mu...