# Why is multiple dispatch a feature?

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/why-is-multiple-dispatch-a-feature/31101>\
**Category:** Internals & Design\
**Tags:** question\
**Created:** [November 14, 2019, 9:06pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/why-is-multiple-dispatch-a-feature/31101 "2019-11-14T21:06:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![jonathanBieler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/82dd89/32.png) [@jonathanBieler](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/jonathanBieler)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2019, 11:09am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/why-is-multiple-dispatch-a-feature/31101/24 "2019-11-15T11:09:56Z")

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I actually have a (somewhat buggy) version of this since a few years :

![30](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/original/3X/2/2/22afae3c6ad7983b7a504038f6b09f10bea622b3.gif)

![43](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/original/3X/2/6/26e2dd2a3a1a95721480c892179c5d5d41a474ac.gif)

I don’t use it much though, probably because it doesn’t work well enough.

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