You could view it that way, but the fact remains that they dispatch on completely different information. Overloading dispatches on compile time types, multimeth

You could view it that way, but the fact remains that they dispatch on completely different information. Overloading dispatches on compile time types, multimethods dispatch on run time type tags. This distinction is important. Are you saying that you are going to ship say a C++ compiler with your program so that you can dispatch on run time information with compile time overloading??