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Re:Thoughts on Python 3 by perfunctory on Wednesday December 07, 2011 @04:18AM (#3323097)
"The multimethod based design of the language"

What is he talking about?

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Re:Thoughts on Python 3 by mr1900 on Wednesday December 07, 2011 @12:06PM (#3324636)
http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=101605

Not part of the language as far as I can see, more a way how you do this in python

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Re:Thoughts on Python 3 by sirclueless on Wednesday December 07, 2011 @01:40PM (#3325166)
In a comment here on HN. the author clarified. What he means is that a whole bunch of builtin functions operate by calling methods on the objects they are passed.

int(n) --> n.__int__()

format(x, spec) --> x.__format__(spec)

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Re:Thoughts on Python 3 by perfunctory on Wednesday December 07, 2011 @03:11PM (#3325706)
It's not multimethods. It's just calling methods on the objects you are passed.
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