Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.dougwise.org!news-transit.tcx.org.uk!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: markspace <-@.> Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.help Subject: Re: Casts and special things of the Java language Date: Sun, 03 Apr 2011 13:35:16 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 11 Message-ID: References: <874o6gqv2k.fsf@merciadriluca-station.MERCIADRILUCA> <87tyefbsol.fsf@merciadriluca-station.MERCIADRILUCA> <4f3453aa-5824-4aa1-81f0-6bfabcff3c7b@hd10g2000vbb.googlegroups.com> <548b9e2c-28a4-4ebf-87ba-a20c9c54c287@k30g2000yqb.googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2011 20:35:19 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="HNtbhFK4u1h2GX4o7nzHOA"; logging-data="15439"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX189pCcZoOLzMK2Cp28qfb4KkU6H+QvZ8R0=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110303 Thunderbird/3.1.9 In-Reply-To: <548b9e2c-28a4-4ebf-87ba-a20c9c54c287@k30g2000yqb.googlegroups.com> Cancel-Lock: sha1:E1cj/GH4L+Tjaaz96MkhA6u74yM= Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.help:528 On 4/3/2011 11:28 AM, Merciadri Luca wrote: >> There's a technical word that belongs here instead of "equivalent." > I don't know what is this word. Well I'm rushing out the door at the moment, but now that you know one word you should be able to find others: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymorphism_in_object-oriented_programming