Luke Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think we should replace our multimethod system with a more general > pattern matcher, a "variadic multimethod" system of sorts. Multimethods > need to be variadic anyway, because we want pugs's quicksort example to > work.
I'd not say replace. The dispatcher will very likely be a Parrot PMC. The default dispatcher dispatches on types, matching variadic signatures should be possible too. All infix operators are multi subs. I can't imagine that we want to pay the penalty for simple operations like: $a = $b + $c to inspect the values of operands, constraints, rules and what not. [ dispatching on rules ] If the involved types need a more fancy dispatcher, their meta-class should say so. > Luke leo
