It is often helpful to have a function behave differently depending on the type of object passed. For example, when summarizing a variable, it makes sense to create a different summary for numeric or string data. It is possible to have a different function for every type of object, but then users would have to remember many function names, and to remain unique, function names may be longer. Object-oriented programming (OOP) is based on objects and is implemented ...
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Victoria College, Victoria, TX, USA
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Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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