Re: Polymorphism vs. Overloading

: gdevivo@conicit.ve (Gabriela O. de Vivo) writes:


: >>>At some point a question raised about the exact difference between
: Polymorphism and Overloading.


: It's sort of like Outcome Based Education vs "Back to the Basics" --
: They're essentially the same thing except that one is defined as good
: while the is other evil.


I think this does hit the proverbial nail on the head. In an abstract
sense, when we are talking about overloading/polymorphism/what have you,
we are talking about a NAME RESOLUTION problem. In any of these cases,
we have a (meta-) function ID X TYPE* -> FUNCTION. The various restrictions
of these name resolution functions are often given highly politically
(and marketing) charged "goodness" arguments, when most are just
safety/flexibility and early/late binding tradeoffs. Whatever fancy way
you want to slice and dice your restriction classes of this name resolution
function, the underlying mechanism is still the same.
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