Jochen Theodorou wrote: ... > 1) build a list of all methods with the name of the method we want to calls > 2) remove the methods that are not valid for the call > 3) if more than one method remains calculate the "method distance" > between the call and the method > 4) the method with my minimum distance will be selected > 5) if at the end I have two or more methods with the same minimum > distance I have to report an error ... > So.. how do other languages do that?
I'm not going to try to describe the JRuby way, because it's not nearly as good as we'd like it. What I would like to do is say we need "one way" we can use to do this method selection and dispatch in all our languages. Attila mentioned that he had been working on a library to do dynamic dispatch on Java types according to the specified behavior that javac follows for static dispatch, and I presume he meant the MOP library that's now available in release form. If that's the case, it would be an additional, very compelling reason for us to try to back that library by implementing the interfaces in our language impls. I've already done a first pass in JRuby, and it's not a hard process; if both Groovy and JRuby implemnted the interfaces (or a version of then we could evolve out of discussion) we might mutually gain the benefit of Attila's Java types MOP for free, and have consistent dispatch behavior across both languages. - Charlie --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "JVM Languages" group. To post to this group, send email to jvm-languages@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jvm-languages?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
