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Subject: Re: Bools and explicitness [was Re: PyWart: The problem with "print"]
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> Fairly definitive terms have existed since 1985:
> http://lucacardelli.name/Papers/OnUnderstanding.A4.pdf
>>
>> You are making an "outside view of a function" (until a better term is
>> found).  So that give you one possible view of polymorphism.  However,
>> *within* a class that I would write, you would not see polymorphism
>> like you have in C++,  where it is within the *function closure*
>> itself.   Instead you would see many if/then combinations to define
>> the behavior given several input types.  I would call this simulated
>> polymorphism.
>
> Cardelli and Wegner cited above call this ad-hoc polymorphism.
> What you are calling polymorphism, they call universal polymorphism.

Okay, THANK YOU for the reference.  The main thing to note is that
there is a difference.  Those terms sound good enough.
-- 
MarkJ
Tacoma, Washington