> I'm not sure multimethods alone are enough to solve issues with Sage's
> type system (e.g. coercion, where the result of a+b may happen in a
> completely new domain) but they could certainly help.

I purposedly said "many", and not "all", nor even "most". The most
important feature to a CAS missing in Julia is multiple inheritance,
in my opinion.

However, Julia multimethods are backed up by a powerful coercion
system, so I do not understand the "step back" criticism.

Luca

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