Re: RFC 97 (v1) prototype-based method overloading

[email protected] (Piers Cawley) 15 Aug 2000 09:13:59 +0100
Newsgroups perl.perl6.language.subs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Chaim Frenkel <[email protected]> writes:
> Why would anyone want to select a different method based upon the
> arguments.

Have you seen Class::Multimethods? This kind of despatch can be very
useful. Of course, the existence of Class::Multimethods proves that it
can be done already so there may be no need to put it in the core.

-- 
Piers