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 fo

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, i

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 support

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 > dispat