Affiliation:
1. Department of Computer Science, Iowa State University, 229 Atanasoff Hall, Ames, Iowa
2. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington, Box 352350, Seattle, WA
Abstract
Many popular object-oriented programming languages, such as C++, Smalltalk-80, Java, and Eiffel, do not support multiple dispatch. Yet without multiple dispatch, programmers find it difficult to express binary methods and design patterns such as the "visitor" pattern. We describe a new, simple, and orthogonal way to add multimethods to single-dispatch object-oriented languages, without affecting existing code. The new mechanism also clarifies many differences between single and multiple dispatch.
Publisher
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Subject
Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design,Software
Cited by
11 articles.
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