Multiple dispatch or multimethods is a feature of some programming languages in which a function or method can be dynamically dispatched based on the run-time...
52 KB (5,927 words) - 11:40, 28 May 2025
operation will be performed. This is known as multiple dispatch. Examples of languages that support multiple dispatch are Common Lisp, Dylan, and Julia. A language...
20 KB (2,608 words) - 15:43, 12 May 2025
In software engineering, double dispatch is a special form of multiple dispatch, and a mechanism that dispatches a function call to different concrete...
31 KB (4,333 words) - 13:08, 19 May 2025
support (lazy functional programming) using Reactive Extensions (Rx) multiple dispatch, method combinations actor programming promises, native extensions...
41 KB (1,398 words) - 08:10, 29 April 2025
systems. Some, however, such as Common Lisp Object System, provide multiple dispatch, under which method calls are polymorphic in all arguments. The interaction...
17 KB (1,862 words) - 06:35, 16 March 2025
include a type system with parametric polymorphism and the use of multiple dispatch as a core programming paradigm, a default just-in-time (JIT) compiler...
110 KB (8,459 words) - 11:41, 13 May 2025
In computing, static dispatch is a form of polymorphism fully resolved during compile time. It is a form of method dispatch, which describes how a language...
3 KB (240 words) - 13:06, 20 May 2025
In computer programming, predicate dispatch is a generalisation of multiple dispatch ("multimethods") that allows the method to call to be selected at...
2 KB (213 words) - 08:50, 27 May 2025
centers associated with their specific company or service. Dispatchers of all kinds work with multiple communications systems depending on their function. These...
13 KB (1,430 words) - 19:50, 24 May 2025
In languages with single dispatch, classes typically also include method definitions. In languages with multiple dispatch, methods are defined by generic...
90 KB (6,703 words) - 13:50, 5 May 2025
The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun (or simply The French Dispatch) is a 2021 American anthology comedy drama film written, directed...
104 KB (7,750 words) - 02:16, 27 May 2025
irrelevant (single dispatch). In a programming language with multiple dispatch when a generic function is called, method dispatch occurs on the basis...
6 KB (628 words) - 12:02, 20 March 2025
be handled using multiple dispatch; which is naturally covariant. However, most programming languages do not support multiple dispatch. The following table...
53 KB (6,679 words) - 02:52, 28 May 2025
Superscalar processor (redirect from Multiple issue)
more than one instruction during a clock cycle by simultaneously dispatching multiple instructions to different execution units on the processor. It therefore...
14 KB (1,684 words) - 11:17, 9 February 2025
effectively implements double dispatch. For languages whose object systems support multiple dispatch, not only single dispatch, such as Common Lisp or C#...
35 KB (3,978 words) - 16:09, 12 May 2025
Object-oriented programming (section Dynamic dispatch)
(such as other objects passed as parameters), it's called multiple dispatch. Dynamic dispatch works together with inheritance: if an object doesn't have...
67 KB (7,159 words) - 22:41, 26 May 2025
business rules, enabling certain compiler optimizations, allowing for multiple dispatch, and providing a form of documentation. An example of a simple type...
57 KB (7,205 words) - 17:12, 3 May 2025
functions, user-defined function types, function literals, closures, and multiple return values. This rich feature set supports a functional programming...
71 KB (1,508 words) - 15:38, 5 May 2025
orthogonality, efficiency, and ease-of-use. The language supports multiple dispatch and multimethods, dynamic inheritance, and optional static type checking...
4 KB (297 words) - 00:20, 9 October 2023
classes) are first-class objects. Dylan supports multiple inheritance, polymorphism, multiple dispatch, keyword arguments, object introspection, pattern-based...
19 KB (2,333 words) - 09:00, 24 December 2024
the dispatcher can keep track of trains' locations across the territory that the dispatcher controls. Larger railroads may have multiple dispatcher's offices...
17 KB (2,331 words) - 05:28, 13 July 2024
mechanism called protocols. Dynamic dispatch, as in Clojure, however, without multiple dispatch because Elixir protocols dispatch on a single type. Support for...
12 KB (999 words) - 15:20, 12 May 2025
virtual call table, dispatch table, vtable, or vftable is a mechanism used in a programming language to support dynamic dispatch (or run-time method binding)...
15 KB (1,944 words) - 10:21, 23 April 2024
write to implement them, and the language features they require. Multiple dispatch Ruby syntax § Open classes Coproducts of functors Type classes Tagless-final...
17 KB (1,863 words) - 07:40, 6 February 2025
virtual method is an inheritable and overridable function or method that is dispatched dynamically. Virtual functions are an important part of (runtime) polymorphism...
14 KB (1,656 words) - 04:10, 15 April 2025
Dispatched labor refers to an atypical employment relationship. Dispatch work agencies receive requests from businesses to have them hire and manage labor...
11 KB (1,413 words) - 04:24, 9 December 2024
(OO), and generic. It also supports features such as call by name, multiple dispatch, function overloading, operator overloading, exception handling and...
14 KB (1,210 words) - 02:38, 4 May 2025
A flight dispatcher (also known as an airline dispatcher or flight operations officer) assists in planning flight paths, taking into account aircraft...
10 KB (1,296 words) - 20:46, 29 January 2025
Strachey in 1967. Ad hoc polymorphism is a dispatch mechanism: control moving through one named function is dispatched to various other functions without having...
7 KB (985 words) - 16:37, 20 June 2024
"The General" is a song by the roots rock band Dispatch. It appeared on their 1997 album Bang Bang and became one of the group's most well-known songs...
5 KB (523 words) - 07:37, 31 July 2024