> ok, its not builtin into pharo, but this is not really a problem, one uses
> those things more for crosschecking, where speed is not really a problem.
> re multiple dispatch, actually this was the first and most important thing i
> found missing when i discovered pharo ,squeak, smalltalk. otoh there exists
> a package that does this; if i remember correctly the name is helvetica. i
> read the papers about that package but never downloaded that package
> essentially for two reasons:
> - i'm a speed freak and feared this would slow down my programs too much. i
> thought this is something that should indeed be hard coded.
> - although, if  i remember correctly, this package _is downloadable, it was
> in a way deeply hidden in the internet (not in the usual places like
> smalltalkhub or squeaksource) as if the author did not really want it to be
> used by everybody for every task.