Disable GC entirely
Paulo Pinto
pjmlp at progtools.org
Wed Apr 10 11:31:01 PDT 2013
Am 10.04.2013 20:16, schrieb Andrei Alexandrescu:
> On 4/10/13 1:50 PM, Paulo Pinto wrote:
>> Everyone seems to be having them, it is as if after realizing that in
>> many cases aggregation is better than inheritance, multi-methods is also
>> a better way to add attach behaviour to objects.
>
> My perception is that there's an exponential falloff as follows: 99% of
> all cases are handled by single dispatch; 0.9% are handled by double
> dispatch; 0.09% are handled by triple dispatch; ...
>
> I'd tell any language designer - don't worry about multiple dispatch.
> Spend that time on anything else, it'll be better invested.
>
>
> Andrei
>
I agree with you, I doubt there are that much cases where more than
double dispatch is required.
But they make nice language puzzles. :)
--
Paulo
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