OT(Slightly): Thanks to Python.

"John Roth" <newsgroups at jhrothjr.com> writes:

> As far as I am concerned, 2 and 3 are so whats.  1 would be nice at> times, but there's no way it's going to happen in a language that> doesn't have static typing.

Well, it's called multiple dispatch.  Could be done, but it's quite a
paradigm shift.

Cheers,
mwh

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