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		zephyrfalcon on Dec 7, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Thoughts on Python 3 Basically yes. Although there are ways around it: http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=101605

arethuza on Dec 7, 2011 [–]

Thanks - that looks quite neat.

It seems to me there is a big difference between having a language that is truly based on multimethods and one where it is possible to implement multimethods fairly easily - from what I can see Python looks more like the latter.

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