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A polyglot's guide to multiple-dispatch (2016)

https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2016/a-polyglots-guide-to-multiple-dispatch/

37•andsoitis•3d ago

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lisper•2h ago

Cue the smug Common Lisp weenies...

Oh, wait, that's me :-)

andsoitis•2h ago

Part 3 of this series discusses Common Lisp - https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2016/a-polyglots-guide-to-mult...

upghost•1h ago

To your point, I assume the "polyglot" part was referring to the arguments this would spawn in the comment section

adgjlsfhk1•59m ago

don't worry. the Julia peeps can also be smug about this (as one)

gobdovan•1h ago

This is a nice illustration of the expression problem, which the article itself points out toward the end. Multiple dispatch is a language-level way to solve it. Crafting Interpreters [1] has a very approachable Java-based chapter that also covers these patterns in detail.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expression_problem

[1] https://craftinginterpreters.com/representing-code.html

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A polyglot's guide to multiple-dispatch (2016)

https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2016/a-polyglots-guide-to-multiple-dispatch/

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