[boost] Re: MultiMethod/Visitor Interest

From: Alexander Nasonov (alnsn_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-09-29 15:20:39

David Abrahams wrote:
> Jesse Jones <jesjones_at_[hidden]> writes:
> 
> >> 1) Compile time. Yes, this solution is strongly compile time.
> >>    But I think it is an advantage :-)
> >
> > I disagree. The biggest benefit of multimethods is that they are
> > flexible. 
> 
> Yeah.  It's hard to imagine how "compile-time multimethods" would be
> any different from what C++ already provides in terms of overload
> resolution and partial ordering.

There is something more then runtime and compile-time. It's initialization
time. Multimethods might be initialized with lots of MPL and other cool
compile-time stuff and yet might being used at runtime flexibly.

-- 
Alexander Nasonov