Re: Dispatching, Multimethods and the like

2003-06-17 Thread Piers Cawley
Adam Turoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Damian just got finished his YAPC opening talk, and managed to allude to dispatching and autoloading. As it *appears* today, regular dispatching and multimethod dispatching are going to be wired into the langauge (as appropriate). Runtime dispatch

Re: Dispatching, Multimethods and the like

2003-06-17 Thread Adam Turoff
On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 09:44:52AM -0400, Piers Cawley wrote: Adam Turoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As it *appears* today, regular dispatching and multimethod dispatching are going to be wired into the langauge (as appropriate). Runtime dispatch behavior will continue to be supported,

Re: Dispatching, Multimethods and the like

2003-06-17 Thread Adam Turoff
On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 06:31:54PM -, Dan Sugalski wrote: For methods, each object is ultimately responsible for deciding what to do when a method is called. Since objects generally share a class-wide vtable, the classes are mostly responsible for dispatch. The dispatch method can, if

Re: Dispatching, Multimethods and the like

2003-06-17 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 10:37 AM -0400 6/17/03, Adam Turoff wrote: On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 06:31:54PM -, Dan Sugalski wrote: For methods, each object is ultimately responsible for deciding what to do when a method is called. Since objects generally share a class-wide vtable, the classes are mostly responsible