Article: Writing Julia style multiple dispatch code in D
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Thu Aug 24 10:06:23 PDT 2017
On Thursday, 24 August 2017 at 16:41:54 UTC, David Gileadi wrote:
>
> Very interesting!
Thank you
>
> I have a couple suggestions: for newbies like me, it would be
> nice to include a short explanation of multiple dispatch, and
> maybe a link to a longer description.
Wikipedia's description of multiple dispatch is pretty good, I'll
include it and add a short description.
> ... Also it wouldn't hurt to include a short excerpt of how
> this code would look in Julia, along with the D examples.
I included a link to Julia package as an example but I could add
a short snippet as illustration.
> Finally, I wonder if Discrete and Continuous couldn't be
> user-defined attributes.
They could but the code closely models Julia's typing system, but
UDAs could add good usability to this style of programming as
well.
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