Editing Multiple dispatch (section)

== Support in programming languages ==
=== Primary paradigm ===
* [[Julia (programming language)|Julia]]<ref name="juliaManual">{{cite web
 |url=http://docs.julialang.org/en/release-0.4/manual/methods/
 |title=Methods
 |publisher=Julialang
 |work=The Julia Manual
 |access-date=11 May 2014
 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160717192005/http://docs.julialang.org/en/release-0.4/manual/methods/
 |archive-date=17 July 2016
 |url-status=dead
 }}</ref>

=== Supporting general multimethods ===
* [[C Sharp 4.0|C# 4.0]]<ref>{{cite web
 |url=http://blogs.msdn.com/laurionb/archive/2009/08/13/multimethods-in-c-4-0-with-dynamic.aspx
 |title=Multimethods in C# 4.0 With 'Dynamic'
 |access-date=2009-08-20
}}</ref>
* [[Cecil (programming language)|Cecil]]<ref>{{cite web
 |url=http://www.cs.washington.edu/research/projects/cecil/www/cecil.html
 |title=Cecil Language
 |access-date=2008-04-13
}}</ref>
* [[Clojure]]<ref>{{cite web
 |url=http://clojure.org/multimethods
 |title=Multimethods in Clojure
 |access-date=2008-09-04
}}</ref>
* [[Common Lisp]] (via the [[Common Lisp Object System]])<ref>{{cite book
 |last=Steele |first=Guy L.
 |title=Common LISP: The Language
 |publisher=Digital Press
 |location=Bedford, MA, U.S.A
 |year=1990
 |chapter=28
 |isbn=978-1-55558-041-4
 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8Hr3ljbCtoAC
}}</ref>
* [[Dylan (programming language)|Dylan]]<ref>{{cite web
 |url=http://www.opendylan.org/books/drm/Background_and_Goals
 |title=Background and Goals
 |access-date=2008-04-13
}}</ref>
* [[Emacs Lisp]] (via [https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Generic-Functions.html cl-defmethod])
* [[Fortress (programming language)|Fortress]]<ref>{{cite web
 |url=http://research.sun.com/projects/plrg/Publications/fortress.1.0.pdf
 |title=The Fortress Language Specification, Version 1.0
 |access-date=2010-04-23
 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130120063452/http://research.sun.com/projects/plrg/Publications/fortress.1.0.pdf
 |archive-date=2013-01-20
 |url-status=dead
 }}</ref>
* [[Groovy (programming language)|Groovy]]<ref>{{cite web
 |url=http://blogs.oracle.com/sundararajan/entry/multimethods_in_groovy
 |title=Multimethods in Groovy
 |access-date=2008-04-13
}}</ref>
* [[Lasso (programming language)|Lasso]]<ref>{{cite web
 |url=http://lassoguide.com/language/methods.html#multiple-dispatch
 |title=Methods – LassoGuide 9.2
 |access-date=2014-11-11
}}</ref><ref>{{cite web
 |url=http://nice.sourceforge.net/visitor.html
 |title=Visitor Pattern Versus Multimethods
 |access-date=2008-04-13
}}</ref>
* [[Nim (programming language)|Nim]], up to v0.19.x (from v0.20.0 it is necessary to pass a compiler flag)<ref>{{cite web
 |url=https://nim-lang.org/docs/manual.html#methods-multiminusmethods
 |title=Nim Manual: Multi-methods
 |access-date=2022-05-03
}}</ref>
* [[Raku (programming language)|Raku]]<ref>{{cite web
 |url=http://dev.perl.org/perl6/faq.html
 |title=Perl 6 FAQ
 |access-date=2008-04-13
}}</ref>
* [[R (programming language)|R]]<ref>{{cite web
 |url=http://developer.r-project.org/howMethodsWork.pdf
 |title=How S4 Methods Work
 |access-date=2008-04-13
}}</ref>
* [[Seed7]]<ref>{{cite web
 |url=http://seed7.sourceforge.net/manual/objects.htm#multiple_dispatch
 |title=Multiple Dispatch in Seed7
 |access-date=2011-04-23
}}</ref>
* [[TADS]]<ref>{{cite web
 |url=http://tads.org/t3doc/doc/sysman/multmeth.htm
 |title=TADS 3 System Manual
 |access-date=2012-03-19
}}</ref>
* [[Visual Basic (.NET)]] (VB.NET)<ref>{{cite web
 |url=https://www.infoq.com/news/2007/06/VB-Multiple-Dispatch/
 |title=VB.Net Multiple Dispatch
 |access-date=2020-03-31
}}</ref> via late binding, also via [[.Net DLR]]<ref>{{cite web
 |url=https://www.red-gate.com/simple-talk/dotnet/visual-studio/the-new-features-in-c4-0/
 |title=New Features in C#4.0 and VB.Net 10.0
 |date=4 November 2010
 |access-date=2020-03-31
}}</ref>
* [[Wolfram Language]]<ref>{{cite web
 |url=https://www.wolfram.com/language/for-experts/
 |title=Notes for Programming Language Experts
 |access-date=2016-08-21
}} 
</ref> via symbolic pattern matching
* [http://www.eclipse.org/xtend Xtend]<ref>{{cite web
 |url=https://www.eclipse.org/xtend/documentation/202_xtend_classes_members.html#polymorphic-dispatch
 |title=Multiple dispatch
}}</ref>

=== Via extensions ===
* Any [[.NET]] framework language (via the library [http://www.codeplex.com/multimethods MultiMethods.NET])
* [[C (programming language)|C]] (via the library [https://github.com/CObjectSystem/COS C Object System])
* [[C Sharp (programming language)|C#]] (via the library [https://code.google.com/p/multimethod-sharp/ multimethod-sharp])
* [[C++]] (via the library [https://github.com/jll63/yomm2 yomm2], [https://github.com/IgorNikitin/multimethods multimethods] and [https://github.com/Hectarea1996/omm omm])
* [[D (programming language)|D]] (via the library [https://github.com/jll63/methods.d openmethods])
* [[Factor (programming language)|Factor]] (via the standard [http://docs.factorcode.org/content/vocab-multi-methods.html multimethods vocabulary])
* [[Java (programming language)|Java]] (using the extension [http://multijava.sourceforge.net/ MultiJava])
* [[JavaScript]] (via package [https://www.npmjs.com/package/@arrows/multimethod @arrows/multimethod])
* [[Perl]] (via the module [https://metacpan.org/module/Class::Multimethods Class::Multimethods])
* [[Python (programming language)|Python]] (via [https://pypi.python.org/pypi/PEAK-Rules PEAK-Rules], [https://web.archive.org/web/20050409082546/http://peak.telecommunity.com/ RuleDispatch], [https://web.archive.org/web/20050309230813/http://gnosis.cx/download/gnosis/magic/multimethods.py gnosis.magic.multimethods], [http://sourceforge.net/projects/pymultimethods/ PyMultimethods], [https://multiple-dispatch.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ multipledispatch], or [https://github.com/beartype/plum plum-dispatch])
* [[Racket (programming language)|Racket]] (via [https://docs.racket-lang.org/multimethod/index.html multimethod-lib])
* [[Ruby (programming language)|Ruby]] (via the library [https://rubygems.org/gems/multi/ The Multiple Dispatch Library] and [https://rubygems.org/gems/multimethod Multimethod Package] and [https://rubygems.org/gems/vlx-multi/ Vlx-Multimethods Package])
* [[Scheme (programming language)|Scheme]] (via e.g. [http://community.schemewiki.org/?tiny-clos TinyCLOS])
* [[TypeScript]] (via package [https://www.npmjs.com/package/@arrows/multimethod @arrows/multimethod])