Multiple Dispatch in Practice

被引：4
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作者：
Muschevici, Radu [1 ]
Potanin, Alex [1 ]
Tempero, Ewan [2 ]
Noble, James [1 ]
机构：
[1] Victoria Univ Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
[2] Univ Auckland, Auckland 1, New Zealand
来源：
ACM SIGPLAN NOTICES | 2008年 / 43卷 / 10期
关键词：
Design; Experimentation; Languages; Measurement; double dispatch; empirical software engineering; instanceof; multimethods; multiple dispatch;
D O I：
10.1145/1449955.1449808
中图分类号：
TP31 [计算机软件];
学科分类号：
081202 ; 0835 ;
摘要：
Multiple dispatch uses the run time types of more than one argument to a method call to determine which method body to run. While several languages over the last 20 years have provided multiple dispatch, most object-oriented languages still support only single dispatch-forcing programmers to implement multiple dispatch manually when required. This paper presents an empirical study of the use of multiple dispatch in practice, considering six languages that support multiple dispatch, and also investigating the potential for multiple dispatch in Java programs. We hope that this study will help programmers understand the uses and abuses of multiple dispatch; virtual machine implementors optimise multiple dispatch; and language designers to evaluate the choice of providing multiple dispatch in new programming languages.
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页码：563 / 582
页数：20
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