Functions and types: Multiple dispatch | Week 3 | 18.S191 MIT Fall 2020

This video shows how we can dispatch functions, i.e. call different methods of a function based on the types of the objects that we pass into the function.

Contents
0:00 Functions on types
1:30 Generic and specialized versions of functions
3:06 Generic functions and their methods
3:50 Defining methods in Pluto
4:01 Multiple dispatch
4:31 Example of multiple dispatch
6:52 Summary

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Can you upload the pluto notebook to the GitHub?

[welcomethanks]

this Type is like class in other language?

[subhadeepbej]

I just realized I'm watching the videos in reverse order. Somebody fix the order of the playlist ..fgs