© Vaskaran Sarcar 2020
V. SarcarInteractive Object-Oriented Programming in Javahttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5404-2_5

5. Get Familiar with Polymorphism

Vaskaran Sarcar1 
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Bangalore, Karnataka, India
 

Let’s review what you have already learned about polymorphism. Polymorphism is generally associated with one name with many forms; for example, if you have two integer operands with the addition operation, you expect to get a sum of the integers, but if the operands are two strings, you expect to get a concatenated string. I also mentioned that polymorphism can be of two types: compile-time polymorphism and runtime polymorphism.

Here, I’ll start our discussion with compile-time polymorphism.

In compile-time polymorphism, the compiler can bind the ...

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