Re: Re: Re: The world is not object oriented

The inheritance tree is called that, because it is used for implementing inheritance, not polymorphism. Polymorphism means you have several things, that you can treat in a uniform way, for example because they all implement the same interface.

Subclasses, in general, have the same interface as their parents, which means that polymorphism and inheirtance are tightly bound.

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Re: Re: Re: Re: The world is not object oriented by chromatic (Archbishop) on Jan 02, 2004 at 17:30 UTC
Yes and no. It's exceedingly difficult to have inheritance without polymorphism but it's exceedingly useful to have polymorphism without inheritance. Polymorphism is the principle. Inheritance is one application.	[reply]