Models to Code: With No Mysterious Gaps

© Leon Starr, Andrew Mangogna and Stephen Mellor 2017

Leon Starr, Andrew Mangogna and Stephen Mellor, Models to Code, 10.1007/978-1-4842-2217-1_9

9. Event Polymorphism

Leon Starr¹ , Andrew Mangogna² and Stephen Mellor¹

(1)San Francisco, California, USA

(2)Nipomo, California, USA

In programming, polymorphism is the idea that a function interface remains fixed, but the choice of a particular implementation of that function is done at runtime. Many types of polymorphism are defined in modern programming languages. Here we are referring to simple dynamic polymorphism. At the model level, polymorphism arises in the signaling of events to subclasses of a generalization.

Generalization and Set Partitioning

Polymorphic events are applicable only in the context ...