From: ica2ph@alpha1.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de (Peter Hermann)
Subject: Re: polymophism
Date: 1996/11/26
Date: 1996-11-26T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <57f6vk$1h7e@info4.rus.uni-stuttgart.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Pine.SOL.3.91.961126125340.18709B-100000@sirius
Peter Hicks (ph8tx@herts.ac.uk) wrote:
: On 26 Nov 1996, Peter Hermann wrote:
: > What is "polymophism" ?
: I assume you mean 'polymorphism'. Polymorphism (in my terms) is where a
: function can accept any type of data, e.g. a char, bool or num. I'm only
: just starting to learn Ada today, but in Miranda, a polymorphic
: function's signature is something like:
: testProcA :: [*] -> * -> *
plain wrong: in Mirabella, we use testProcB !
(The explanation is found in John Howard's marvelous posting
as well as in the subject line above)
You say you started to learn Ada today. Congratulations.
And a hearty welcome to the Ada Community.
Sent with peace and humour :-) ;-)
--
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1996-11-26 0:00 polymophism Peter Hermann
1996-11-26 0:00 ` polymophism Peter Hicks
1996-11-26 0:00 ` Peter Hermann [this message]
1996-11-26 0:00 ` polymophism John Howard
1996-11-29 0:00 ` polymophism Richard Riehle
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1996-11-18 0:00 polymophism AGBOH CHARLES
1996-11-19 0:00 ` polymophism Darren C Davenport
1996-11-21 0:00 ` polymophism James O'Connor
1996-11-21 0:00 ` polymophism Mike Stark
1996-11-22 0:00 ` polymophism Klaus Brouwer
1996-11-23 0:00 ` polymophism James O'Connor
1996-11-25 0:00 ` polymophism Richard Riehle
1996-11-22 0:00 ` polymophism Norman H. Cohen
1996-11-22 0:00 ` polymophism Norman H. Cohen
1996-11-23 0:00 ` polymophism James O'Connor
1996-11-22 0:00 ` polymophism Matthew Heaney
1996-11-25 0:00 ` polymophism Joachim Durchholz
1996-11-26 0:00 ` polymophism Don Harrison
1996-11-25 0:00 ` polymophism Don Harrison
1996-11-23 0:00 ` polymophism John Howard
1996-11-21 0:00 ` polymophism Robert I. Eachus
1996-11-22 0:00 ` polymophism Jon S Anthony
1996-11-22 0:00 ` polymophism Robert A Duff
1996-11-23 0:00 ` polymophism Jon S Anthony
1996-11-24 0:00 ` polymophism Robert B. Love
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