Multimethods Implementation in C++ Using Recursive Deferred Dispatching

Authors:
Danil Shopyrin
Affiliations:
Transas Technologies and Saint Petersburg State University of Information Technologies, Mechanics, and Optics
Venue:
IEEE Software
Year:
2006

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Abstract

A multimethod is a virtual method of several objects. Some object-oriented programming languages support multimethods, but C++ doesn't. The proposed multimethods implementation approach based on recursive deferred dispatching allows multimethod functionality in C++. The approach is completely declarative and ensures compile-time type safety and integrity checking. It also provides a constant multimethod execution time, separate source code compilation, and is portable. The approach is generalized as a reusable freeware library intended to hide its complexity from the client code.