Re: Polymorphism vs. Overloading

geld@cs.sun.ac.za (Jaco Geldenhuys)
Mon, 31 Oct 1994 22:15:21 GMT

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Newsgroups: comp.compilers
From: geld@cs.sun.ac.za (Jaco Geldenhuys)
Keywords: polymorphism
Organization: University of Stellenbosch, South Africa
References: 94-10-144 94-10-154
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 1994 22:15:21 GMT

Joseph H Allen wrote:
| Gabriela O. de Vivo <gdevivo@conicit.ve> wrote:
| >At some point a question raised about the exact difference between
| >Polymorphism and Overloading.
|
| The difference is purely syntactical.


Are you sure that this is the only difference? My definitions are:


Polymorphism - the ability of an entity to refer at run-time to instances
      of various classes;
Overloading - the reuse of identifiers for different, but analogous,
      entities.


It sounds like a difference in level. Can you give an example of the
polymorphism -> overloading conversion, please.


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