Chapter 24. Object-Oriented Programming: Polymorphism
One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them. | ||
| --John Ronald Reuel Tolkien | ||
The silence often of pure innocence Persuades when speaking fails. | ||
| --William Shakespeare | ||
General propositions do not decide concrete cases. | ||
| --Oliver Wendell Holmes | ||
A philosopher of imposing stature doesn’t think in a vacuum. Even his most abstract ideas are, to some extent, conditioned by what is or is not known in the time when he lives. | ||
| --Alfred North Whitehead | ||
In this chapter, you will learn:
<objective>What polymorphism is, how it makes programming more convenient and how it makes systems more extensible and maintainable. ...
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