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		ubertaco on March 17, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Python 3.4.0 released Nice! That's something I like about Haskell and Elixir: the ability to define behavior for a given case. Though it looks like that's constrained to type-based dispatch (a la Java method overloading). Is there any way to define for specific values?

hyperpape on March 17, 2014 [–]

If I read this article properly, there's nothing yet standardized, but there's a possibility of future development: http://lukasz.langa.pl/8/single-dispatch-generic-functions/.

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