NH> Can the term "polymorphism" be applied equally (and 
NH> correctly) to variables, operators and function names?

PS> Yes, though operators and functions are not really 
PS> different things, and having a polymorphic variable is not 
PS> possible in any programming language that I know of. ;)

If I were to instantiate a pointer to an object of Class A (call it 
opa), coercing that pointer into a type of Class B could do the 
following:

#1  opa->foo();

#2  opb(opa)->foo();

Line #1 would do class A's foo() and line #2 would do class B's foo().  
Is that not the action of a polymorphic variable?









PS>Ciao
PS>Pascal

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