Re: Polymorphism vs. Overloading

mac@coos.dartmouth.edu (Alex Colvin)
Tue, 25 Oct 1994 12:56:17 GMT

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From: mac@coos.dartmouth.edu (Alex Colvin)
Keywords: polymorphism
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA
References: 94-10-144 94-10-154
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 1994 12:56:17 GMT

jhallen@world.std.com (Joseph H Allen) writes:


>The difference is purely syntactical. Calls to overloaded functions look,
>well, like function calls. Calls to polymorphic functions require a dot or
>'->' somewhere. Really, that's the only difference. Artificial semantic


Isn't overloading resolved by the compiler and polymorphism resolved at
runtime? Or is this just the C++-centric view?
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Alex Colvin
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