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From: Sohail Somani (s.somani_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-10-19 12:44:03


> -----Original Message-----
> From: boost-bounces_at_[hidden]
> [mailto:boost-bounces_at_[hidden]] On Behalf Of Janek Kozicki
> Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 10:49 PM
> To: boost_at_[hidden]
> Subject: Re: [boost] Runtime Dynamic Dispatch, Multimethods?
>
> Sohail Somani said: (by the date of Wed, 18 Oct 2006
> 17:03:26 -0700)
>
> > > can it be used for multimethods ?
> >
> > Doesn't seem like it. It uses a single value to dispatch so it's the
> > same thing as single dispatch. Shouldn't be impossible to
> dispatch based
> > on multiple values though.
>
> Do you know something that does multimethods? I have written my own
> multimethods library, based on "Modern C++ Design" by Andrei
> Alexandrescu. I use it in my prject, yade. But I'm looking forward for
> some boost replacement, anybody working on it?

I don't know of anything useful. Aren't typical implementations of
multimethods in C++ quite slow?


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