Overloading (was Re: Algorithmic lists )

[Thomas Lindgren]

> Anyway with a dynamically typed language it is not so easy as you have
> to redefine the functions/built-ins/primitives the operators end up
> calling.  You can't fix that at compile time.

Smalltalk and Scheme have traditionally permitted redefinition of
builtins. To get reasonable performance, it seems one has to do
dynamic compilation (Smalltalk) or declare that you want the standard
primitives (Scheme).

			Thomas
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