in reply to Re^10: Assignable Subroutines
in thread Assignable Subroutines

Ahh, I was right about there being a Pattern for this. It's basically a Visitor Pattern.

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Re^12: Assignable Subroutines
by fergal (Chaplain) on Jan 27, 2005 at 21:10 UTC
    The visitor pattern is actually just a symptom of only having single dispatch. Have a look at Visitor pattern considered useless to see what you can do in an OO language that can dispatch methods on more than one arguemnt.
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