Multiple Dispatch - Support in Programming Languages

Support in Programming Languages

Programming languages that support general multimethods:

  • Common Lisp (via the Common Lisp Object System)
  • Haskell via Multi-parameter type classes
  • Dylan
  • Nice
  • Cecil
  • R
  • Groovy
  • Perl 6
  • Seed7
  • Clojure
  • C# 4.0
  • Fortress
  • TADS
  • Xtend

Multimethods in other programming languages via extensions:

  • Scheme (via e.g. TinyCLOS)
  • Python (via PEAK-Rules, RuleDispatch, gnosis.magic.multimethods, or PyMultimethods)
  • Perl (via the module Class::Multimethods)
  • Java (using the extension MultiJava)
  • Ruby (via the library The Multiple Dispatch Library and Multimethod Package and Vlx-Multimethods Package)
  • .NET (via the library MultiMethods.NET)
  • C# (via the library multimethod-sharp)
  • Factor (via the standard multi-methods vocabulary)

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