<posted & mailed> Paul McGuire wrote:
> we just recently on > this forum had someone ask about "polymorphism" when what they really > meant was "overloaded method signatures." (It is even more unfortunate > that language features such as overloaded method signatures and > operator overloading get equated with OOP I've actually heard "overloaded method signatures" be referred to as ad-hoc polymorphism. Aren't there like 4 types of polymorphism: inheritance, ad-hoc, parameter templetization (sp?), and something else...can't remember. -- C -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list