Multimethods means that a method is dispatched not only on basis of the receveiving object (or read: first argument) but on basis of all arguments. The term is

Multimethods means that a method is dispatched not only on basis of the receveiving object (or read: first argument) but on basis of all arguments. The term is inherently related to OOP: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multimethod http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multimethod