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From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.no>
Subject: Re: Multiple dispatch in CLOS
Date: 1999/11/06
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* Barry Margolin
| C++ and Java didn't exist at the time.  C++'s dispatching based on the
| static type of the arguments is generally referred to as "function
| overloading".

  very true, and what is being referred to as "single dispatch" in C++ is
  actually calls to the virtual methods obtained with special syntax:
  instance.method(...), so the argument employed by the requestor is a
  request to compare apples and oranges, at best.

#:Erik