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Hands-On Design Patterns and Best Practices with Julia

You're reading from   Hands-On Design Patterns and Best Practices with Julia Proven solutions to common problems in software design for Julia 1.x

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838648817
Length 532 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Getting Started with Design Patterns
2. Design Patterns and Related Principles FREE CHAPTER 3. Section 2: Julia Fundamentals
4. Modules, Packages, and Data Type Concepts 5. Designing Functions and Interfaces 6. Macros and Metaprogramming Techniques 7. Section 3: Implementing Design Patterns
8. Reusability Patterns 9. Performance Patterns 10. Maintainability Patterns 11. Robustness Patterns 12. Miscellaneous Patterns 13. Anti-Patterns 14. Traditional Object-Oriented Patterns 15. Section 4: Advanced Topics
16. Inheritance and Variance 17. Assessments 18. Other Books You May Enjoy

Understanding Multiple Dispatch

Multiple dispatch is one of the most unique features in the Julia programming language. They are used extensively in the Julia Base library, stdlib, as well as many open source packages. In this section, we will explore how multiple dispatch work and how one can utilize them effectively.

What is a dispatch?

A dispatch is the process by which a function is selected for execution. You may wonder why there is any controversy in selecting which function to execute. When we develop a function, we give it a name, some arguments, and a block of code that it should execute. If we come up with unique names for all functions in a system, then there will be no ambiguity. However, there are often times...

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