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1 point by mdemare 6173 days ago | link | parent

Never mind + and *, how should polymorphism work in general? Polymorphism means "several functions with the same name, dispatching on type" which implies some kind of objects.

Arc already supports a Javascript-like OO-system (probably every language with first-class functions does), maybe we should experiment with that? See if we can get Prototype running on Arc?



1 point by are 6172 days ago | link

> Polymorphism means "several functions with the same name, dispatching on type" which implies some kind of objects.

I'm assuming that by "some kind of objects", you mean a user-extensible type system.

You can have multiple dispatch on function arguments (by type or even by instance) without providing user-extensible types, so it's not really "imply". Just sayin'...

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