Re: What is polymorphism?

On 2006-06-07 14:57:17 +0200, bruno at modulix <onurb@xxxxxxxxxxx> said:


But operator overloading *is* polymorphism.

No, it's not. If I create operator+(const X&, const X&) I have not made anything polymorphic. I have just created a new overloaded function no different than if I had created a function f(const X&, const X&);


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