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Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> writes:

> On Friday, September 23, 2022 at 1:02:17 PM UTC+3, Juha Nieminen wrote:
>
>> As another example:  "convert(...)" might feel more convenient to
>> write than something like "convert_to_utf8_from_utf16(...)", but
>> you have to think about the code from the perspective of someone
>> who is reading it and doesn't already know what it's doing.
>> The latter may be significantly longer but it expresses infinitely
>> more clearly what it's doing (even without seeing what the parameters
>> are).  Someone seeing just "convert(...)" in the code can't have any
>> idea what it's doing.
>
> It sounds like an argument against C++-style static polymorphism.

Do you mean ad hoc polymorphism, aka function overloading?  Or do
you mean something else, e.g., template-related?