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

[Thom Brooke <tcb_cut_out_80908@yahoo.com>]

tmoran@bix.com wrote:
> 
> Suppose you could have a two dimension dispatch table and dispatch
> on both parameters in
>   Execute(A_Processor, A_Command);
> You said different processors execute different subsets of commands,
> so, since the table couldn't have any holes, you would have to
> have dummy entries - returning an error condition, say.  That
> means that any time you add a new command, you'll have to add it,
> or at least a dummy Execute for it, to each processor, and each
> time you add a processor it will need Execute's for all known
> commands.  Is that OK?

Yes, this would work.  And it's kind of along the line I was heading.

But I'm really trying to avoid any kind of "explicit dispatching"; I'd
like to get the compiler/run-time to do it for me :-)

Of course, if that doesn't work, I'll be back to this.

Thanks.
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