Larry Wall writes: > If you write: > > multi method add( $self: Foo $foo, Bar $bar ); > > then there are multiple add methods in the current class. Note the > invocant is not optional in this case. Also, there's an implied > second colon after $bar, indicating the end of the arguments to be > considered for multi dispatch. (You can put as many colons as you > want in any multi declaration--each subsequent colon indicates that > the preceding additional argument or arguments are to be used as > "tie breakers, just as Foo and Bar are being used for tie-breaking > in the method above.)
So what is the, ahem, submethod for determining the dispatch within the tie-breaking cascades? A simple sum of differences? Cartesian distance? Luke > Larry
