From: Christoph <chr_news@...>
Date: 2002-09-12T00:57:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Multimethods (was Re: Larry Wall's comments on Ruby)

"Dan Sugalski"  wrote in
....
> That's pretty much multimethods. They're terribly useful, as they cut
> out a lot of checks for the second type in methods. (Checks which
> tend to be slow, error prone, and missing stuff)

Thanks Dan, for making such an eloquent case for multimethods.
Personal I cannot image (surely an effect of being single and
simple minded;-) how their use could be less complex then the
alternatives like Rubys coerce framework  or double-dispatch ..

/Christoph