Python 3.4 added the ability to define function overloading with static methods. This is essentially the example from the documentation: from functools import singledispatch class TestClass(obje...

I'm refactoring a function that converts a variety of date formats (ie. ISO 8601 string, datetime.date, datetime.datetime, etc) to a Unix timestamp. I want the new function to use @singledispatch i...

I read in a book that "you can't create traditional 'classes' in julia with single-dispatch-style methods like obj.myfunc()" ... and I thought that sounded more like a challenge than a fact. So he...

I'm trying to understand what single and multiple dispatch are, exactly. I just read this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_dispatch And from that definition is seems to me that C# and VB.Ne...

Is there way to "unregister" a registered function for a generic ? For example: from functools import singledispatch @singledispatch def foo(x): return 'default function' foo.register(int, lam...

The basic idea of what I want to do is: def aFunction(string='', dicti={}): if len(str) > 0: print('you gave string as input') if len(dicti) > 0: print('you gave a dict as input') aFunct...

Is it the same as overloading, if not, can you please provide and example of each in C# I have read the responses to a similar question asked in SO ... i did not understand the responses posted to...