Path: csiph.com!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Tim Rentsch Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++ Subject: Re: What is visitor pattern? Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2023 15:07:33 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 16 Message-ID: <86a5uayg62.fsf@linuxsc.com> References: <331cb164-e6b3-4f9b-af8d-ee933abd79b7n@googlegroups.com> <6df46174-6867-4577-a73d-0fb70d6a25e8n@googlegroups.com> <9ea1f202-4524-03b8-f003-e11b7fa411e7@removeyourself.dontspam.yahoo> <01a599fc-0731-45e8-80d2-6f8eb387821dn@googlegroups.com> <86v8d1xg92.fsf@linuxsc.com> <5c32396d-2447-4079-9926-4e4dd3d4df9an@googlegroups.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="1084eb5dd0b1a11121af7ba127734067"; logging-data="1985633"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19voE5C9PeG7+9G3MlGeSJdVJwxqxQRFZQ=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:q3hFsS/EbHD1CDmydMoo27mgyQs= sha1:mE0yZs2TH68qjJF0qttURiFx008= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.c++:91460 Tiib writes: > On Sunday, 27 August 2023 at 07:26:52 UTC+3, Tim Rentsch wrote: > >> Tiib writes: >> >>> Double dispatch was first perhaps described by Dan Ingalls in >>> seventies >> >> Do you have a reference for that? > > No ... GitHub contains one from eighties; can be I misremembered: > simple-technique-for-handling-multiple-polymorphism.pdf> Thank you, that's a good reference.