Curious bystander here. Is there a cult follower on HN who can speak to the benefits of multiple dispatch, practically and compared to other languages? I know the sales pitch but I’m curious in particular about which practical coding problems and abstractions become obsolete with MD.
It looks really promising, like “the way things were always supposed to be”, but I haven’t yet developed a full and intuitive understanding of what it means.
It looks really promising, like “the way things were always supposed to be”, but I haven’t yet developed a full and intuitive understanding of what it means.