Multiple dispatch

Posted Sep 17, 2018 10:16 UTC (Mon) by oldtomas (guest, #72579)
Parent article: An introduction to the Julia language, part 2

To counter academic amnesia a bit, I'd like to point out that multiple dispatch is in CLOS, the standard object system in Common Lisp (at least Guile Scheme inherits this). Sometime around 1990.

Also, R has multiple dispatch since its "S4" object system, in the whereabouts of 1998.