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Re:What can we learn from how compilers are designed? by bstamour on Saturday March 17, 2018 @05:01PM (#16609043)
So virtual function overloading?

Can you give a small bit of sample code to demonstrate what you mean?

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Re:What can we learn from how compilers are designed? by ZephyrP on Saturday March 17, 2018 @08:17PM (#16609835)
just ordinary virtual function that discriminates upon arguments (at compile-time).
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Re:What can we learn from how compilers are designed? by zenhack on Saturday March 17, 2018 @10:42PM (#16610245)
Yeah, multiple dispatch implies more than one argument involved in the dispatch decision at runtime. So that's not the same thing.
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