Re: Design problem using Multiple Dispatch or Redispatch (long)

["David Kristola" <David95037@See-My.Sig>]

On Mon, 13 Mar 2000 18:59:57 -0800, Thom Brooke wrote
(in message <38CDAA56.36B9E1C1@yahoo.com>):
> Does anyone have any ideas? 

I'm not sure if this helps any (it is late, and i didn't follow all
of your post, sorry).

First, i think you might want to check out John Volan's page on the
"with-ing" problem (and solution).

http://home.bluemarble.net/~jvolan/WithingProblem/FAQ.html

Second, perhaps some sort of registration and match process could
help.  Processors could register with some dispatcher (not tagged
type dispatching), and provide a pattern matcher that identifies
a byte pattern that will be accepted by the processor.  Given new
input, the dispatcher would search down it's list of pattern
matchers until it finds a match, then call the associated processor.

--djk
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