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A simple technique for handling multiple polymorphism

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ACM SIGPLAN Notices, Volume 21, Issue 11

Pages 347 - 349

https://doi.org/10.1145/960112.28732

Published: 01 June 1986 Publication History

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Certain situations arise in programming that lead to multiply polymorphic expressions, that is, expressions in which several terms may each be of variable type. In such situations, conventional object-oriented programming practice breaks down, leading to code which is not properly modular. This paper describes a simple approach to such problems which preserves all the benefits of good object-oriented programming style in the face of any degree of polymorphism. An example is given in Smalltalk-80 syntax, but the technique is relevant to all object-oriented languages.

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