Any news on multimethods?

[Jari-Matti Mäkelä]

Bruno Medeiros wrote:
> Jari-Matti Mäkelä wrote:
>> About 1,5 year ago there was short discussion about native multimethods
>> in D on the NG. Well, is there any possibility to make them native on
>> the language level. It's a bit annoying to use them via external
>> libraries.
> 
> What's wrong with the library approach?

Well, nothing in particular. It's just a bit more illustrative to use a
syntax like

  void method(foo @ bar) { .. }

and support multimethods on the language level without extra 3rd party
wrappers. Of course it adds more bloat in general, but I don't really
know what D is trying to be now. It's too heavy to be a system
programming language (out of the box) and it lacks many high level
features that are needed in large scale software projects. Double
dispatch is a very primitive feature and multimethods are one possible
way to implement it.

> (and what multimethods library
> are you using?)

I was testing the old hack by Pragma. There was a newer version of it
somewhere but my newsreader was not able to open it.