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

[Thom Brooke <tcb_cut_out_80908@yahoo.com>]

David Kristola wrote:
> 
> 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
> email not spam to David95037 (at the dot com called america on-line)

Wow.  Lots of information on that page.  It's going to take a little 
while to dig through it all.  I'll let you know if it helps.

Thanks.
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-- Thom Brooke
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