From ... From: Erik Naggum Subject: Re: Multiple dispatch in CLOS Date: 1999/11/06 Message-ID: <3150841695845937@naggum.no>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 545050075 References: mail-copies-to: never X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@eunet.no X-Trace: oslo-nntp.eunet.no 941852896 21735 195.0.192.66 (6 Nov 1999 01:48:16 GMT) Organization: Naggum Software; +47 8800 8879 or +1 510 435 8604; fax: +47 2210 9077; http://www.naggum.no NNTP-Posting-Date: 6 Nov 1999 01:48:16 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp * Barry Margolin | C++ and Java didn't exist at the time. C++'s dispatching based on the | static type of the arguments is generally referred to as "function | overloading". very true, and what is being referred to as "single dispatch" in C++ is actually calls to the virtual methods obtained with special syntax: instance.method(...), so the argument employed by the requestor is a request to compare apples and oranges, at best. #:Erik