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"The multimethod based design of the language" What is he talking about?
by perfunctory 15y ago
"The multimethod based design of the language"
What is he talking about?
- mr1900 15y agohttp://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=101605 http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=101605 Not part of the language as far as I can see, more a way how you do this in python
- sirclueless 15y agoIn a comment here on HN. the author clarified. What he means is that a whole bunch of builtin functions operate by calling methods on the objects they are passed. int(n) --> n.__int__() format(x, spec) --> x.__format__(spec)
- perfunctory 15y agoIt's not multimethods. It's just calling methods on the objects you are passed.