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Python from Wise Guy's Viewpoint

Jon S. Anthony j-anthony at rcn.com
Sat Oct 25 15:15:35 EDT 2003 
gt5163b at prism.gatech.edu (Brian McNamara!) writes:

> boost::tuple to then generalize things.  (Indeed, using such libraries,
> you can simulate "apply" rather convincingly.  But somewhere under the
> hood, someone has to have written N different overloads for 0-arg,
> 1-arg, ... N-arg, up to some fixed ("large enough") N.)

That's not actually good enough.  You also have to have overloads for
all the possible types for 1-arg, ..., N-arg.  Actually it's worse
than that - the set of types is not closed, so even in principle this
won't work.

/Jon
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