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Question by Sudeesh
Submitted on 3/4/2004
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What is the advantage of Polymorphism?Anything to do with the memory?


Answer by Gus
Submitted on 8/24/2004
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Clarity.

From clarity springs maintainability.

In short, it keeps you from having to look up silly things like "OK, now what's the name of the subroutine that multiplies two 5 by 5 matrices together?  Is that matmult5x5x5()?  It also keeps your function namespace less cluttered (on the programmer side, not the implementation side).

 

Answer by kosco
Submitted on 9/28/2004
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                                 |-- coercion
                 |-- ad hoc    --|
                                 |-- overloading
  polymorphism --|
                                 |-- parametric
                 |-- universal --|
                                 |-- inclusion


 

Answer by tom
Submitted on 10/6/2004
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wefasfaf

 

Answer by yo mama
Submitted on 10/22/2004
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Uh you mean like, capitillas and pasgetti?

 

Answer by idiot
Submitted on 11/9/2004
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dude polymorphism has everyhting to do with the memory.. update ur system and then shove it in ur dogs.

 

Answer by [skorpion]
Submitted on 6/26/2005
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Its called genetics, and no. A polymorphism is a mutation in a gene.

 

Answer by moon
Submitted on 6/26/2005
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nothing, nope

 

Answer by Ohm0
Submitted on 6/26/2005
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-Polymorphic variables help with memory use, in that a single variable can be used to store multiple data types (integers, strings, etc), rather than declaring a different variable for each data format to be used.
-Polymorphic functions help with memory use in the same way; you use a single function to operate on multiple data types, instead of having multiple different functions, each specifically for a different data type.

The Euphoria language is a funny sort of polymorphic: data is stored ONLY as numberic values!  If you make a variable called "Grade" and assign it to "A", the computer stores a value of 65; the output depends on whether the output function used is a string output, or numeric output.  In this (unique?) case, the input and output methods are the parts that are polymorphic - the side the humans see can take whichever shape the human wants to see, but the computer only works the one way.

 

Answer by Koschei
Submitted on 6/27/2005
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D&D does NOT translate to real life.

 

Answer by Jimmy
Submitted on 7/25/2005
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Polymorphs are the creation of man... they take your emotions and feed on them.  Memory of the state before the feeding is lost, and you then must live on without the benefit of the lost emotion.

 

Answer by suresh
Submitted on 3/7/2006
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to doing many task at same time

 

Answer by Ravishankar
Submitted on 3/7/2006
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Polymorphism is nothing but a mechanism which hides the data and behaviour of perticular class , so all objects are just access and use the result of the behaviour but they have no rights to see what is behind. this is the mainly usufulness of polymophism upto my knowledge

 

Answer by Kamruzzaman
Submitted on 6/3/2006
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Yes, polymorphism affect the solubility and dissolution properties.

 

Answer by BIG DADDY
Submitted on 7/24/2006
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I WAS GOING TO TELL YOU BUT I CANT REMEMBER

 

Answer by radhika
Submitted on 12/23/2006
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sir i dont know plz tell me

 

Answer by xyz
Submitted on 1/2/2007
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Dynamic runtime binding

 

Answer by christinamarie
Submitted on 5/26/2007
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how long after a kittens birth does it take for them to open their eyes

 

Answer by PETRA
Submitted on 6/9/2007
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Answer by Emerald
Submitted on 7/9/2007
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It depends. Polymorphism is usually evolutionary, though there isn't always a distinct advantage. It exists mostly to avoid viruses from wiping out an entire species in one go, since each morph has slightly different traits.

 

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