which language

[Peter Hiscocks]

There is a version of Tcl that supports object-oriented programming. It's
called 'incr Tcl'. I have no experience with it, however.

Peter



On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 06:26:01PM -0500, Henry Spencer wrote:
> On Sun, 1 Feb 2004, Peter L. Peres wrote:
> > To the point: I would like to use arity and type-based function
> > implementation matching, as is available in C++ and Prolog. Can this be
> > done in Perl or TCL or Python without reinventing the wheel ?
> 
> Generally speaking, no.  These languages all have quite relaxed notions of
> "type" and aren't prepared to distinguish between functions on that basis. 
> And since they don't do that, there is little point in distinguishing by
> number of arguments either, and so they don't.  You can write a single
> function and have it make decisions based on how many arguments it got
> handed and what types they have, but the language won't do it for you. 
> 
>                                                           Henry Spencer
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