From: Mike Stok <mike@...>
Date: 2002-09-11T23:16:55+09:00
Subject: Re: Larry Wall's comments on Ruby

In article <01c801c25999$dbeee4d0$364432d2@nosedog>, Gavin Sinclair wrote:

> Despite the discussion and links, I haven't picked up on what multimethods
> actually are, so I can't comment on those.

Take a look at the relevant slides in 
http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~damian/TPC/1999/MultipleDispatch/Presentation/

(One of the values of a language is the community it attracts, in the
Perl world Damian Conway has done a lot both for the language and its
users.  One of the things which attracted me to Ruby was the spirit of
the people in its community.)

Mike

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