> Fairly definitive terms have existed since 1985: > http://lucacardelli.name/Papers/OnUnderstanding.A4.pdf >> >> You are making an "outside view of a function" (until a better term is >> found). So that give you one possible view of polymorphism. However, >> *within* a class that I would write, you would not see polymorphism >> like you have in C++, where it is within the *function closure* >> itself. Instead you would see many if/then combinations to define >> the behavior given several input types. I would call this simulated >> polymorphism. > > Cardelli and Wegner cited above call this ad-hoc polymorphism. > What you are calling polymorphism, they call universal polymorphism.
Okay, THANK YOU for the reference. The main thing to note is that there is a difference. Those terms sound good enough. -- MarkJ Tacoma, Washington -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
