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0 pointsanonymoushn5y ago0 comments

By type-driven dispatch do you mean dynamic dispatch on more than 1 parameter? Most statically typed languages do not have this and you have to write a bunch of boilerplate to get them to pretend that they do.

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mintplant5y ago

No, I'm referring to things like specialization, which you'll see used in any large language runtime built in C++, for example.

anonymoushnOP5y ago

So "type driven dispatch" meant only dispatch that can be decided at compile time? Is it even called dispatch at that point?

mintplant5y ago

Yeah, static dispatch.

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mintplant5y ago

No, I'm referring to things like specialization, which you'll see used in any large language runtime built in C++, for example.

anonymoushnOP5y ago

So "type driven dispatch" meant only dispatch that can be decided at compile time? Is it even called dispatch at that point?

mintplant5y ago

Yeah, static dispatch.

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