A technique for polymorphic invocation of methods based on the types of many (or all) arguments. Compare to single-dispatch, used in common OO languages, where methods can only be polymorphic in the first argument -- the runtime resolution of a.doSomething(x, y, z) depends only on the type of a.
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Special interaction between derived objects (i.e. mutiple dispatch)
So, I have a list of base class pointers:
list stuff;
Then, at some point one of the objects will look through all other objects.
Base * obj = ...; // A pointer from the 'stuff'-list.
for (list::iterator it = stuff.begin(); it !=…
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