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  2. Polymorphism (computer science) - Wikipedia

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    Polymorphism can be distinguished by when the implementation is selected: statically (at compile time) or dynamically (at run time, typically via a virtual function). This is known respectively as static dispatch and dynamic dispatch, and the corresponding forms of polymorphism are accordingly called static polymorphism and dynamic polymorphism.

  3. Parametric polymorphism - Wikipedia

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    Parametric polymorphism was first introduced to programming languages in ML in 1975. [6] Today it exists in Standard ML, OCaml, F#, Ada, Haskell, Mercury, Visual Prolog, Scala, Julia, Python, TypeScript, C++ and others. Java, C#, Visual Basic .NET and Delphi have each introduced "generics" for parametric polymorphism. Some implementations of ...

  4. Dynamic dispatch - Wikipedia

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    In computer science, dynamic dispatch is the process of selecting which implementation of a polymorphic operation (method or function) to call at run time.It is commonly employed in, and considered a prime characteristic of, object-oriented programming (OOP) languages and systems.

  5. Polymorphism - Wikipedia

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    Polymorphism (computer science), the ability in programming to present the same programming interface for differing underlying forms; Ad hoc polymorphism, applying polymorphic functions to arguments of different types; Parametric polymorphism, abstracts types, so that multiple can be used with a single implementation

  6. Ad hoc polymorphism - Wikipedia

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    Ad hoc polymorphism is a dispatch mechanism: control moving through one named function is dispatched to various other functions without having to specify the exact function being called. Overloading allows multiple functions taking different types to be defined with the same name; the compiler or interpreter automatically ensures that the right ...

  7. Bounded quantification - Wikipedia

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    Bounded quantification is an interaction of parametric polymorphism with subtyping. Bounded quantification has traditionally been studied in the functional setting of System F <:, but is available in modern object-oriented languages supporting parametric polymorphism such as Java, C# and Scala.

  8. Method overriding - Wikipedia

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    Thought dates = new Advice (); // Polymorphism dates. message (); // Prints "Warning: Dates in calendar are closer than they appear." When a subclass contains a method that overrides a method of the superclass, then that (superclass's) overridden method can be explicitly invoked from within a subclass's method by using the keyword super . [ 3 ] (

  9. Subtyping - Wikipedia

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    In programming language theory, subtyping (also called subtype polymorphism or inclusion polymorphism) is a form of type polymorphism.A subtype is a datatype that is related to another datatype (the supertype) by some notion of substitutability, meaning that program elements (typically subroutines or functions), written to operate on elements of the supertype, can also operate on elements of ...