[PEAK] 'Categories' in Python

[Andy Gross]

On Dec 10, 2004, at 7:07 PM, Phillip J. Eby wrote:
>
> I'm having trouble seeing the benefit, versus just using generic 
> functions (either single or multi-dispatch).  The only difference 
> between them and what you're doing as far as I can see is that the 
> calling signature would be 'toUpper(someObj)' instead of 
> 'someObj.toUpper()'.  But apart from that that, there's not any 
> difference.
>

You could be right - I've barely gotten started playing with 
peak.dispatch, so I might not need this at all.  The idea of categories 
may be more accessible to some users,  though, and the concept is a 
little more limited in scope than generic functions..

/arg