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...

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...

In computer programming, predicate dispatch is a generalisation of multiple dispatch ("multimethods") that allows the method to call to be selected at...

In software engineering, double dispatch is a special form of multiple dispatch, and a mechanism that dispatches a function call to different concrete...

support (lazy functional programming) using Reactive Extensions (Rx) multiple dispatch, method combinations actor programming promises, native extensions...

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...

systems. Some, however, such as Common Lisp Object System, provide multiple dispatch, under which method calls are polymorphic in all arguments. The interaction...

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...

irrelevant (single dispatch). In a programming language with multiple dispatch when a generic function is called, method dispatch occurs on the basis...

In languages with single dispatch, classes typically also include method definitions. In languages with multiple dispatch, methods are defined by generic...

more than one instruction during a clock cycle by simultaneously dispatching multiple instructions to different execution units on the processor. It therefore...

be handled using multiple dispatch; which is naturally covariant. However, most programming languages do not support multiple dispatch. The following table...

centers associated with their specific company or service. Dispatchers of all kinds work with multiple communications systems depending on their function. These...

virtual method is an inheritable and overridable function or method that is dispatched dynamically. Virtual functions are an important part of (runtime) polymorphism...

The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun is a 2021 American anthology comedy drama film written, directed, and produced by Wes Anderson from...

effectively implements double dispatch. For languages whose object systems support multiple dispatch, not only single dispatch, such as Common Lisp or C#...

(OO), and generic. It also supports features such as call by name, multiple dispatch, function overloading, operator overloading, exception handling and...

(such as other objects passed as parameters), it's called multiple dispatch. Dynamic dispatch works together with inheritance: if an object doesn't have...

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)...

write to implement them, and the language features they require. Multiple dispatch Ruby syntax § Open classes Coproducts of functors Type classes Tagless-final...

business rules, enabling certain compiler optimizations, allowing for multiple dispatch, and providing a form of documentation. An example of a simple type...

Strachey in 1967. Ad hoc polymorphism is a dispatch mechanism: control moving through one named function is dispatched to various other functions without having...

functions, user-defined function types, function literals, closures, and multiple return values. This rich feature set supports a functional programming...

languages, function overloading or method overloading is the ability to create multiple functions of the same name with different implementations. Calls to an...

orthogonality, efficiency, and ease-of-use. The language supports multiple dispatch and multimethods, dynamic inheritance, and optional static type checking...

classes) are first-class objects. Dylan supports multiple inheritance, polymorphism, multiple dispatch, keyword arguments, object introspection, pattern-based...

programming through unbound methods. The language uses traits and multiple dispatch extensively. Lasso has a dynamic type system, where objects can be...

the dispatcher can keep track of trains' locations across the territory that the dispatcher controls. Larger railroads may have multiple dispatcher's offices...

mechanism called protocols. Dynamic dispatch, as in Clojure, however, without multiple dispatch because Elixir protocols dispatch on a single type. Support for...

function is uniquely determined given the subtype and supertype. Thus, when multiple subtyping relationships are defined, one must be careful to guarantee that...