Incidentally, the whole argument type-dependent function dispatch is at the
core of the GAP language (though you have to recompile the GAP kernel to
change it). And GAP predates K&R C.
On Thursday, August 21, 2014 4:56:12 PM UTC+1, Bill Hart wrote:
>
> Thus the language is formally extensible at no cost and in an extremely
> simple way that the user can easily do themselves.
>
Depends on your point of view. If you want to tie together different
third-party libraries then it can quickly become a liability that you can
just redefine everything.
julia> getindex(a::Array{Int, 1}, b::Int) = print("test")
> getindex (generic function with 140 methods)
>
Type this into the REPL on your colleague's computer who just left to get a
coffee and see if he ever figures that one out. My bet would be that he's
not going to get any work done until the next restart ;-)
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