>>>>> "RLS" == Randal L Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>>>> "Chaim" == Chaim Frenkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Chaim> Given N different fundemental types, we end up with NxN vtbl entries. Chaim> A long time ago I looked at some smalltalk code that did Chaim> foo add: bar Chaim> It must have been pretty bad, because I can't remember how they did Chaim> it. But I vaguely recall that at least one path, flipped the object Chaim> and the sender. Others did asFoo messages on the sender. RLS> Yes, double dispatch. Addressed by "the Damian" in Object Oriented Perl RLS> (the Book, and the forthcoming Musical) as it applies to perl at a Perl RLS> level. Does double dispatch, solve the combinatorial problem or does it only solve the problem of having to reopen one's classes? This also seems to mean that there is a hierarchy of classes, both for promotion/coercion and for carnal knowledge of what is in the system. <chaim> -- Chaim Frenkel Nonlinear Knowledge, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] +1-718-236-0183
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