"The multimethod based design of the language" What is he talking about?

mr1900 · on Dec 7, 2011

http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=101605

Not part of the language as far as I can see, more a way how you do this in python

sirclueless · on Dec 7, 2011

In a comment here on HN. the author clarified. What he means is that a whole bunch of builtin functions operate by calling methods on the objects they are passed.

int(n) --> n.__int__()

format(x, spec) --> x.__format__(spec)

perfunctory · on Dec 7, 2011

It's not multimethods. It's just calling methods on the objects you are passed.