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to: Pascal Schmidt
from: andrew clarke
date: 2004-07-10 08:31:34
subject: Polymorphism ?

Fri 2004-07-09 23:26, Pascal Schmidt (1:153/401.2) wrote to andrew clarke:

 ac>> I can't really think how it might.  The vector container should act 
 ac>> the same regardless of the datatype its given, for example.  I think 
 ac>> this is the whole idea behind templated functions.  They generally 
 ac>> have a fixed behaviour.

 PS> You could say that the vector container itself is polymorphic
 PS> because the elements can have arbitrary type.

I think that would make them omnimorphic.

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