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zenhack
on March 17, 2018
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What can we learn from how compilers are designed?
Unless it's via some new-fangled C++ feature I haven't heard of yet, I'm pretty sure C++ doesn't have multiple dispatch. Can you elaborate on what you're referring to?
bstamour
on March 17, 2018
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C++ doesn't have multiple dispatch. I think the OP was referring to multiple inheritance, which is not the same thing.
ZephyrP
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I was thinking of runtime single dispatch with compile-time type of the arguments to that function.
bstamour
on March 17, 2018
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So virtual function overloading?
Can you give a small bit of sample code to demonstrate what you mean?
ZephyrP
on March 18, 2018
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just ordinary virtual function that discriminates upon arguments (at compile-time).
zenhack
on March 18, 2018
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Yeah, multiple dispatch implies more than one argument involved in the dispatch decision
at runtime
. So that's not the same thing.
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