I cringe every time I see the phrase "generic function". It's way too
generic -- it doesn't contain any hint of its meaning, and I find it
confusing because Python already has what I think of as generic
functions:
def adder(a, b):
return a+b
That's a perfectly good generic function that depends on Python's
duck-typing. "Multimethods" works, but Python is in many ways
function-oriented rather than method-oriented. Why not call them
"multifunctions"?
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