Re: To understand OOP better...

From: Isaac Gouy (igouy_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 12/31/03 

Date: 31 Dec 2003 06:12:37 -0800

"Uncle Bob (Robert C. Martin)" <u.n.c.l.e.b.o.b@objectmentor.com> wrote in message news:<so23vvss7ieat90ghvebep9e1t960bpg6u@4ax.com>...
> igouy@yahoo.com (Isaac Gouy) might (or might not) have written this on
> (or about) 27 Dec 2003 16:31:01 -0800, :
>
> >"Uncle Bob (Robert C. Martin)" <u.n.c.l.e.b.o.b@objectmentor.com> wrote in message news:<9frhuvs2ts6fmai04f3gb6teqtmtes2h20@4ax.com>...
> >
> >> >Do you consider anything that involves polymorphism to be a variation
> >> >of OO?
> >>
> >> Dynamic polymorphism. Yes.
> >
> >What exactly do you mean by that?
>
> Polymorphism resolved at runtime.
>
>
> Given N different objects: O1...On each implementing the method f.
> The implementation of f in Ox is fx.
>
> If the source code invokes f on some object, the determination of the
> type of the object (O1...On) and the implementation of f (f1...fn)
> occurs at runtime instead of compile time.

Isn't this circular - "objects" used to define "dynamic polymorphism"
which is used to define "variations on object oriented style"?

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